The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the start of the twentieth century, and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings, Laura and Harold Knight, and others. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the heart of a complicated love triangle involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the estate's land agent. True - and deeply moving - the story unfolds against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the looming shadow of World War I.
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The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the start of the twentieth century, and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings, Laura and Harold Knight, and others. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the heart of a complicated love triangle involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the estate's land agent. True - and deeply moving - the story unfolds against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the looming shadow of World War I.
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