Film Review – Effie Gray

With costume dramas, there’s a formula that always tempts filmmakers. Working within tea-and-dismissal confines, the lure is often societal rejection and domestic coldness, which delivers all the known beats of discouragement and ostracism fans of the genre have grown to love. Every once in a while, a movie will come along and find true heat under layers of clothing, and Emma Thompson was one of the few to trust 3D emotion in her screenplay for 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility.” “Effie Gray” returns Thompson to the overcast world of isolating English domesticity, and while the plot all but demands a bubbling sense of life, the feature is cold to the touch. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com