Dying Like Ophelia
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| Artist | Sir John Everett Millais |
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| Year | 1851-1852 |
| Type | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 168 cm × 112 cm (66 in × 44 in) |
| Location | Tate Gallery |
Dying Like Ophelia is a 2002 award winning six-minute drama, directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, produced by Veni Vidi Vici Motion Pictures and based on an excerpt of the play, Lion In The Streets, by Judith Thompson, two-time winner of the Governor General Award. Karyn Dwyer plays a young working class mother dying of cancer who wishes to die a beautiful and poetic death like that portrayed in Millais's famous painting of Ophelia.
[edit] References
- "Dying Like Ophelia". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376585/. Retrieved 26 June 2006.
