Desperate Romantics 2009
- Drama
- 60 min episodes
- 1 season
- 6 episodes
- Ended
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Aidan TurnerDante Gabriel Rossetti
- Rafe SpallWilliam Holman Hunt
- Tom HollanderJohn Ruskin
- Samuel BarnettJohn Millais
- Sam CraneFred Walters
- Zoë TapperEffie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
- Amy MansonLizzie Siddal
- Jennie JacquesAnnie Miller
- Josie FarmiloeCharlotte Siddal
- Maimie McCoyMargaret
Crew
- Paul GayDirector
- Diarmuid LawrenceDirector
- Peter BowkerWriter
- Kieran McGuiganDirector of Photography
- Alan AlmondDirector of Photography
- Daniel PembertonOriginal Music Composer
- David HeadEditor
- Paul KnightEditor
- Ben EvansProducer
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Seasons
- Miniseries6 eps · 2009
Pairings
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