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Watch: trailer for lesbian period film ‘Vita and Virginia’

Story is based on the literary icons’ real-life love letters

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7 years ago

July 18, 2019

Mariah Cooper

**Gemma Arterton** and **Elizabeth Debicki** in ‘Vita and Virginia.’ (Screenshot via YouTube)

The first trailer for lesbian literary romance “Vita and Virginia” has been released.

The film tells the true story of authors Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton) and Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) who pursue a forbidden affair during 1920s London. The story is based on their real-life love letters to each other. Woolf’s relationship with Sackville-West was the inspiration behind her 1928 classic novel “Orlando: A Biography.”

“Vita and Virginia” hits theaters on Aug. 23 and VOD on Aug. 30.

Watch below.

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