i have neither read the book on which the movie be base and nor the letter between vita and violet . if i come to this movie with any expectation whatsoever and it be maybe that the bloomsbury group ( include among others virginia woolf and and which the nicolson be part of ) would be depict . it wasn not and which however wasn not a problem for me . what i be wonder about be how the people behind this movie manage to make it and in my opinion and so very uninteresting and repetitive and most of the character flat and in spite of great material and some very good actor . the script be simply not good enough . i agree with the criticism of my finnish neighbor too many pointless sex scene ( but only between the woman and while there be nothing explicit whatsoever concern harold numerous love affair ) and too many pointless scene in general and too little information about the background of character . it seem odd consider the quality of the production on the surface it seem a really ambitious piece of work and but the script hold of course the most weight and that be where this movie fail . vita relationship with harold struck me a unconvincing and although both of them act really well and especially her . the way they keep declare their unconditional love for each other in a rather sappy manner i thought and well and simply unconvincing . it make a lot more sense that it should have happen through letter and a tmmvds point out i would also have like to know where the nickname come from the russian one as well a mar why ever be someone call vita give the nickname mar . it might be small stuff and but it matter in contribute to the big picture . i watch the movie with english subtitle on and and where it should apparently have say mitya and it say instead medea . that might explain my frustration with the nickname to some extent i could not understand why vita should be greek while violet be russian .