Carrington
Date: 1995
Director: Christopher Hampton
Production Company: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Freeway Films,
Stars: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Samuel West, Rufus Sewell, Penelope Wilton
Location(s): East Sussex, London, North Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Veneto (Italy)
Region(s): Italy, London C-D, North, South East A-D
Storyline:
The story of Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson), the beautiful but unhappy English painter, and her relationship with writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). In the years after World War One the couple experimented with their relationship by breaking all the taboos of old England, as they struggled to live as freely and honestly as was possible.
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Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) arrives at Goathland Railway station. It's a station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway serving the village of Goathland in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire. Amongst its film & television credits it was 'Aidensfield station' in the television series 'Heartbeat'; the Hogwarts Express stop at 'Hogsmeade' in the first three Harry Potter films; 'Mannerton' in the TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small' and also the Rowan Atkinson comedy 'Keeping Mum'.
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Lytton tells Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) that he's been invited up to Garsington. This is the manor house located at 28 Southend, Garsington in Oxfordshire OX44 9DH.
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Carrington goes looking at various houses in the country. They end up living at Bolebroke Mill, Edenbridge Road, Hartfield in East Sussex. Some internet sources list this location as 'The Old Barn', but this is the building next door on the same site.
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Lytton gets attacked by a jealous Mark Gertler (Rufus Sewell) in a currently unidentified location.
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Lytton responds to Carrington's love letter from his new residence in Italy. This is the Villa Tiretta Agostini at Giavera del Montello in Treviso, Veneto. (SR)
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He joins the newly wedded couple of Carrington and Ralph Partridge (Steven Waddington) in Venice on their honeymoon. The gondola is moving along the Rio di Ca' Widmann canal in Venice, Veneto . . .
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. . . in the middle of which takes the passengers under the the bridge Ponte del Piovan o del Volto before continuing along the Rio di Ca' Widmann.
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Times move on . . . and Lytton and Carrington are now living at Norney Grange at 7/106 Elstead Road in Shackleford near Godalming, Surrey GU8 6AY. The property can also be seen in 'The Dig'.