
Below Her Mouth(2017)
An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.


“The love story that inspired Virginia Woolf's Orlando.”
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.

Elizabeth Debicki
Virginia Woolf

Gemma Arterton
Vita Sackville-West

Isabella Rossellini
Lady Sackville

Rupert Penry-Jones
Harold Nicolson

Peter Ferdinando
Leonard Woolf

Emerald Fennell
Vanessa Bell

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Ralph

Sam Hardy
Nigel Sackville-West

Gethin Anthony
Clive Bell

Rory Fleck-Byrne
Geoffrey Scott
Vita & Virginia is a drama, romance film released in 2019 exploring themes of biography, based on true story, polyamory, lgbt, 1920s, lesbian. Directed by Chanya Button, it stars Elizabeth Debicki, Gemma Arterton, Isabella Rossellini. Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
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