Invisible Woman..slow but dramatic

I am really enjoying historical drama at the moment - and the chance to see Ralph Fiennes direct and play Charles Dickens seducing a young muse was too much to resist. This was a slow and delicate costume drama, carefully depicting beautiful English country and seaside in the late 1880's. Felicity Jone plays Nelly the invisible woman, who, as the youngest and least accomplished of three actress sisters, was almost recommended for this affair, by her mother Kristin Scott Thomas. While I was surprised by this maternal protection of her daughter, I was totally bemused by Nelly's patronising need for marriage - it seemed as if the PC police had influenced the moral tone for the current generation... Anyway the creative egoistic male is not a new concept, and it is reassuring to see the English recognise one of their own. And Ralph played Charles so enticingly...