Nelly Wharton Robinson (Felicity Jones) recalls a fateful time from her past when, as a young actress, she met author Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) and secretly became his mistress and muse.
More mood piece than melodrama, Ralph Fiennes’ “The Invisible Woman” brings extraordinary delicacy and cinematic intelligence to the true story of a love affair that Charles Dickens kept secret from the time he met then 18-year-old Nelly Ternan in 1857 until his death in 1870. Told with a finely calibrated poetic obliqueness that draws the viewer into the relationship’s gradual unfolding, the film represents a formidable achievement for Fiennes as both actor and director. – Godfrey Cheshire for Roger Ebert
Starring Felicity Jones, John Kavanagh, Tom Attwood, Susanna Hislop, Tom Burke, Tommy Curson-Smith, David Collings, Michael Marcus, Kristin Scott Thomas, Perdita Weeks, Ralph Fiennes, Richard McCabe, Gabriel Vick, Mark Dexter, Joseph Paxton, Sophie Russell, Christos Lawton, Gwendolen Chatfield, Charissa Shearer, Amber Batty.