THE Luminaries is a lavish new BBC One drama set in the midst of New Zealand's gold rush in 1866. While women were scarce at that point in time, author Eleanor Catton has thankfully managed to make the BBC's adaptation of her Man Booker Prize-winning novel have a female-focus.
Eva Green plays the villainous Lydia Wells, a greedy American who runs a fortune parlour, while Eve Hewson plays Anna Wetherell, a beautiful young woman forced into sex work.
Both women fizz on screen in their respective roles, and I couldn't help but get swept away in Eva's flowing, exotic costumes as well as her scene-stealing performances.
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