The Laureate( 2023)

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In the Roaring Twenties they rewrote the rules.

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Set against the glamorous backdrop of Britain's roaring '20s, The Laureate tells the story of young British War Poet Robert Graves, who is married with four children when he meets and becomes romantically involved with Laura Riding, a writer from America. Defying the conventions of polite society, Riding moves in with Graves and his wife living as a menage a tois. Then with the arrival of strappingly handsome Irish poet Geoffrey Phibbs, the arrangement becomes a menage a quatre. But soon tensions and rivalries become so fraught that Graves is a suspect for attempted murder.

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Tom Hughes
Robert Graves
Dianna Agron
Laura Riding
Laura Haddock
Nancy Nicholson
Fra Fee
Geoffrey Phibbs
Patricia Hodge
Amy Graves
Julian Glover
Alfred Graves
Indica Watson
Catherine Nicholson
Meriel Hinsching
Elfriede
Timothy Renouf
Siegfried Sassoon
Christien Anholt
T. S. Eliot
Edwin Thomas
Edmund Blunden

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Written by tmdb28039023 on Sun Aug 28 2022

Nancy Nicholson (Laura Haddock), wife of Robert Graves (Tom Hughes), is a proponent of birth control. Nancy’s mother-in-law declares that “Birth control is nothing more than an incitement to promiscuity.” She makes a good point, at least based on the evidence of The Laureate. This movie is more concerned with all the possible sexual combinations vis-a-vis the foursome of Robert, Nancy, Laura Riding (Dianna Agron), and Geoffrey Phibbs (Fra Fee) than with the lives and work of any of them. Robert invites Laura, an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist, and short story writer, to spend s...