E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea review — dire docudrama about the Irish architect
One of the golden rules of film, broken here with cataclysmic results, is that you never go 'full docudrama'. By all means replace missing story elements and biographical details with Crimewatch-style recreations featuring untested actors and blank-eyed models — see everything from Man on Wire to The Rescue — but building a whole movie around leaden, titter-inducing chunks of ersatz anti-drama is madness.
But here we are, with a biographical docudrama about the Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray, played by Natalie Radmall-Quirke in a thankless role that cruelly commits her to a purgatory of not quite acting yet not quite modelling either. As we learn about Gray's wealthy life, her education at the turn of the 20th century and her passion for art
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