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To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters

Original title: To Walk Invisible
  • TV Movie
  • 2016
  • TV-PG
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
3.3K
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Finn Atkins, Charlie Murphy, and Chloe Pirrie in To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (2016)
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A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.

  • Director
    • Sally Wainwright
  • Writer
    • Sally Wainwright
  • Stars
    • Finn Atkins
    • Charlie Murphy
    • Chloe Pirrie
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    3.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Sally Wainwright
    • Writer
      • Sally Wainwright
    • Stars
      • Finn Atkins
      • Charlie Murphy
      • Chloe Pirrie
    • 32User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Awards
      • 3 nominations total

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    Finn Atkins
    • Charlotte Brontë
    Charlie Murphy
    Charlie Murphy
    • Anne Brontë
    Chloe Pirrie
    Chloe Pirrie
    • Emily Brontë
    Adam Nagaitis
    Adam Nagaitis
    • Branwell Brontë
    Jonathan Pryce
    Jonathan Pryce
    • Patrick Brontë
    Rosie Boore
    Rosie Boore
    • Young Charlotte
    Lara McDonnell
    Lara McDonnell
    • Young Anne
    Talia Barnett
    • Young Emily
    Troy Tipple
    • Young Branwell
    James Norton
    James Norton
    • Duke of Wellington
    Matt Adams
    • Captain Parry…
    Kris Mochrie
    Kris Mochrie
    • Captain Ross
    Jonathon Carley
    • Napoleon Bonaparte
    June Watson
    June Watson
    • Tabby Aykroyd
    Mark Frost
    Mark Frost
    • John Brown
    Megan Parkinson
    Megan Parkinson
    • Martha Brown
    Jill Baker
    Jill Baker
    • Aunt Branwell
    David Walmsley
    David Walmsley
    • Joe Leyland
    • Director
      • Sally Wainwright
    • Writer
      • Sally Wainwright
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    6Red-125

    Branwell Brontë was a wastrel. (He had three sisters.)

    To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (2016 TV Movie) was written and directed by Sally Wainwright.

    The history of the Brontë sisters is fascinating, and certainly worth a great movie. This isn't that movie.

    Branwell Brontë was a wastrel and an alcoholic. Surely his behavior was detrimental to the life and career of each of his sisters. However, director Wainwright clearly became fascinated with Branwell, and the movie is really his biopic.

    Adam Nagaitis, who portrays Branwell, is an excellent actor. He inhabits the role, and it is a pleasure to watch him act.

    However, the subtitle of this film is "The Brontë Sisters." In fact, they all play a supporting role to their brother.

    If you want to know more about Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë, you will have to check Wikipedia. This movie won't help much.

    The film has a solid IMDb rating of 7.4. I didn't think it was nearly that good, and rated it 6.
    7deanandfran

    Why so much Bramwell

    It is beyond me why they spent so much time filming Bramwell when the title indicates that the movie is about the sisters. While I enjoyed it, having visited the home and pub, I wanted much more about the sisters. Seemed a little glossed over. Actresses were good, just wanted more about the sisters. Lovely story about these very talented ladies.
    10whitehouse-paul

    Brilliant

    Absorbing and with authentic Yorkshire vernacular in parts.

    Each sister was given their own character: Anne seemed to be the placid one,Charlotte was a feisty little firecracker while Emily was emotional and quick to temper. I admired all three characters.

    I believe the rock outcrop on the moors where Emily stood in the film is Ponden Kirk near Haworth - this is a pre-Christian holy place and in Victorian times was where young couples would crawl through a hole in the base - this would mean they would be wed within a year. A fitting place to film on the moors which provided such inspiration to them.

    A welcome and unique addition to dramas about the Bronte sisters who provided some of the finest writing in the English language.
    9kellygfullmer

    Turning Back Time

    I've read all the Bronte novels, studied Emily's poetry in college, and been to Haworth several times. (Tip: if you ever visit, don't skip the hike to Top Withens-the place Emily based Wuthering Heights on. You won't get the true Bronte experience unless you hike on the moors.) I've sat next to Charlotte and Emily's graves and tried to imagine life in that place in the 19th century. This movie encapsulated and synthesized every emotion, thought, and feeling I experienced while in Haworth, at the parsonage museum, reading, and hiking on the moors. It positively reeks of authenticity. The sisters form the nucleus of the story while the ancillary characters orbit them at just the right distance. Their quiet strength and desperation depicts the plight of three women smarter than anyone around them in an age when their brains were considered by men to be more similar to monkeys than their own. Each sister is fully actuated and differentiated as a stand-alone character, individual in her own right. I finished the movie with a determination to visit their home again and re-read all of their work. How many movies inspire their viewers to travel several thousand miles, spend several thousand dollars, and invest scores of hours in reading? I loved that the movie required something from the viewer. You can't watch this film passively. It takes scrutiny, concentration, and contemplation; in other words, things most modern movies don't require in the least. That's why this movie stays with you days after viewing it. No wonder I forget almost everything about many movies I see hours after watching them; they demand nothing but sensational response, something that ebbs almost immediately after arousal. My one complaint is in the sound mixing. The background music swells with such amplitude in places that the dialogue is almost impossible to make out without closed captioning. I eventually put in my Bluetooth ear buds to help me discern the dialogue (admittedly, Yorkshire accents are tough for Americans to decipher in the first place, but as I mentioned earlier, the effort required helps galvanize the viewer into deeper concentration and engagement). Bravo PBS. You rarely disappoint.
    9devikamisra

    Very 'Miss Austen Regrets' but because it is about the Brontes, obviously darker and sadder.

    I would heartily recommend 'To Walk Invisible' as a heartfelt, insightful and quite succinct look into the world of the Bronte sisters. Any follower of their literature and fellow lover of period dramas would be amiss in not watching this venture.

    Go for it. A lot of novelty in a subject as popular for chroniclers as the Brontes. It is interesting to see the family dynamics of the Brontes, especially as so much of their writing was a product of the same.

    I am always on the lookout for interesting period dramas and this year has yielded very few which I would willingly rewatch. This one is one I definitely will.

    I hope this review is helpful and it adds to your understanding of the Brontes and their incredible craft.

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      The poem found by Charlotte and read in voice-over is part of Emily's 'The Prisoner'.
    • Goofs
      Tuberculosis, called consumption during the Brontë sisters' lifetimes, is not caused by catching a chill. It is a bacterial infection spread from one person to the next through the air (cough, sneeze, spit or speak).

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    • Release date
      • March 26, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Görünmeden Yürümek: Bronte Kardeşler
    • Filming locations
      • Haworth, Keighley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK(location)
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      • BBC Wales
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      • 16:9 HD

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