2010 · drama · romance · tv-movie
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Directed by James Kent1h 30m2010
A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with a married woman.
Our read: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance · tv-movie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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