Tuesday, 27 March 2018
959 Portrait of a Marriage
First viewed : September 1990
I recall catching brief snatches of this BBC adaptation of Nigel Nicolson's revelatory novel about his parents, the diplomat Harold Nicolson and writer Vita Sackville-West , a member of the Bloomsbury Group. The main revelation was that both of them were bisexual and had an open marriage though the series focused on Vita's infatuation with a younger woman , Violet Keppel.
Following on from Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, this seemed like another excuse to put lesbian love scenes on the screen and indeed Nicolson himself criticised the series for overdoing the sex.
David Haig played Harold, the unattractive Janet McTeer played Vita and Cathryn Harrison played Violet.
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