Affinity
- Director: Tim Fywell
- Writer: Andrew Davies; Sarah Waters
- Producer: Adrian Bate; Andrew Davies
CGiii Comment
Credit to the production design - the time is captured to perfection.
This stands heads and shoulders above its lesbian contemporaries - raising the bar for consecutive lady-on-lady films.
Hopefully, future directors will take note.
The acting is precise, the direction - atmospheric and riveting.
But, it is the writing that plucks this from the mundane - an out-of-this-world tale with enough little plot twists to keep the most skeptical guessing.
Good work.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium. Set in the 1870s.
Cast & Characters
Zoe Tapper as Selina Dawes;
Anna Madeley as Margaret Prior;
Domini Blythe as Mother Prior;
Amanda Plummer as Miss Ridley;
Mary Jo Randle as Mrs. Jelf;
Caroline Loncq as Ruth Vigers;
Anne Reid as Mrs. Brink;
Vincent Leclerc as Theophilus;
Anna Massey as Miss Haxby;
Ferelith Young as Helen;
Sara Gregory as Madeleine;
Brett Watson as Stephen Prior;
Candis Nergaard as Black Eyed Sue;
Kenneth Hadley as Prison Porter;
Sarah Crowden as Ada