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But one must approach this with a keen understanding that this saga is not as much about the titular Bronte Sisters as it is heavily devoted to the story of their troubled brother Bramwell, and the devastation he often imposed upon the family, the sacrifices they had to make on his behalf and the struggles they endured dealing with his addictions.

The story itself is stunning; Capturing the beauty of the period with incredible delicacy. I have scored this film high, because it was so well written and powerfully executed by the writer/director who I hope we have the opportunity to see do more material of this magnitude in the future. Well worth the watch for anyone who is a history buff.

I must admit I was dubious at yet another film of the lives of the Brontes.I needn't have been,this was an excellent production. Great art/location and costume work. The acting was slow,subtle and not over the top or "chocolate boxy" (as is with some Bronte biogs) The actors were excellently and evenly cast.Too often the sisters are too pretty and therefore lose authenticity. The sisters were quite plain,but feisty,and their characters reacted well against each other. It showed us (more than is normal) the complexities of mid Victorian life and morals. The two hours passed very quickly.

WHY? After the on screen credits,telling us how and when the sisters died.We went into the Parsonage front garden,and up the side path into the modern gift shop of the Parsonage Museum, and the camera panned around it for 5 minutes(showing you all the stock),quite why this was I cannot see.It succeeded in killing the atmosphere that had been achieved in the preceding 2 hours.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This movie is about the story of the three famous Bronte sisters: Anne, Charlotte and Emily. It shows their life not only as writers, but also as women with many difficulties: not enough money to marry, a good father who is becoming blind and a terrible brother destroied by alchol, until his dramatic death. Through the movie we can undertstand the differences between the sisters: Charlotte was obessed by publishing to provide enough money for the family, Emily was interested only in the writing and she hated any kind of notoriety, Anne was sweet and always ready to help their sisters. It seems that they were very close, sharing the pain due to their problematic brother. I liked this movie very much and I discovered Emily's poets, that I didn't know. I will read them in italian and english.

A well crafted biopic is the first conclusion after its final credits. But, more important, it is a wise introduction to the universe of family and work. Precise, delicate, great for the lines and nuances and acting and gentle perspectives about characters and atmosphere. It is a discovery or return to a special story about sufference, fight and talent. Three sisters, a brother wasted by life and an old father. A form of resistance, in so many senses, of the first. And a funeral becoming too long. So, admirable introduction, honest and direct.

Story of the bronte family. The early life and and struggles of the bronte children; the sisters, charlotte, emily, and anne, so talented, while branwell, the brother gets drunk and wastes the days away. Nutrition and sanitary conditions were so poor at the time, the bronte siblings all died by about age thirty. Charlotte made it to about age forty. They left a treasury of literature and poetry, and their home is now a museum. Ironically, dad bronte outlived all the children and all the wives! Written and directed by sally wainwright. She has won four baftas! A pbs production, shown on the free kanopy channel. Wikipedia dot org tells us there were no further descendents, and that there are asteroids named for the three sister writers. Walk invisible refers to the fact that they had to write anonymously, or they would not be taken seriously as women writers at the time. Wuthering heights, and so many more.

The title: To Walk Invisible: The Bronte SISTERS. The tagline: "How against all odds, were the Brontes recognized in a male-dominated 19th-century world?"

So why is that ironic? Because this movie which was purported to be about three amazing women writers who wrote timeless literature was completely dwarfed by their brother's story.

We got to see Branwell traveling, seeing friends, rambling around drunkenly, coughing blood, having halucinations, yelling at family members, etc. Each of the characters including the random friend of Charlotte's had to discuss Branwell at some point.

I would have liked to have seen more with the sisters. What about including a scene with Anne and Charlotte at the Opera after they actually WERE recognized by their publishers?! How about showing the death of Emily? Anne dying the next year? Charlotte becoming a celebrated author without her siblings? Their poor father outliving them all?

Nope! Branwell is gone! This story revolved around him-so now it is over!!

In fact, Branwell's death was the climax of the entire film with the sisters' fates as an afterthought scroll after his death, and right before the inexplicable swooping commercial for the Bronte museum gift shop.

Perhaps the male-dominated world hasn't changed as much from the 19th century as we think. At least when it comes to this production.

This film feels to me like THE depiction of the Brontes for our age. It is compelling each time I watch it (3 times now). I found the approach to a "historical" period so refreshingly vibrant and earthy as well as being strikingly filmed it's almost like a hyper real rendition of the time rather than the chocolate box visions we are often given. I've noticed a theme in several reviews asking why the film is so focused on Bramwell, when it is supposed to w about the women? I HATE it when this male centric approach to EVERYTHING happens due to our still malecentric world. However in this film's case I think it was exactly right and was used as a tool to show how very dependent the women were on the men in their lives. The users were safe while their father was alive, but having no legal right to hold property or money of their own their lives were in peril due to the solipsistic self destructiveness of their brother. In stead of showing 3 insipid women relying on men as is usual it showed 3 strong intelligent women whose social status and wealth were manacled to Bramwell's with no recourse to their independence. So I think to say the film focused on him too much is to miss the point Sally Wainwright was making. A couple of American reviewers have said they could not understand the film and to them I would say: put the subtitles on. The film uses northern dialect/accent as would have been spoken (and still is). If the characters spoke received pronunciation it would have sounded ridiculous and lost some of its heart. To take a reverse example I loved "The Wire" but in the beginning found I could not understand half of what was said, subtitles allowed me to enjoy it without it being artificially "smoothed" for general viewing. So basically I think this film is excellent. I loved the very end sequence of transition too. It made me feel so close to the characters.

I was not excited to see it, because I have had no idea about whose biopic was this. I did not bother to know everything before giving it a try. One of the reason was, I usually enjoy most of the BBC films. I knew it was a period drama and about some famous writers. So, when I saw the very first scene, as kids running around with flames on their heads, I thought it would be some kind of a fantasy film. That was that, in the next minute, it became a different film. For a tale like this, it was a great opening scene. A perfect clue for the viewers what's coming in the latter part of the story.

Those four kids are the siblings and the story takes place in the mid 19th century England. Revolves around the Bronte family living in a small town, majorly focused on the three sisters in the span of three years, the most important years of their lives. Motherless children, grown to adulthood, they struggle to keep the family name honourly in the community. Their only hope is their brother who supposed to be a successful writer is now at worst as his doomed romance has taken him down with.

As I know those eras were, particularly the women, it's about marrying at the young age and settling down with the husband. I don't know the actual reason why those sisters remained unmarried, but I have a couple of perspective in my mind, that might be inappropriate to say out, yet the film kind of breaks the stereotype of women of those times. I blame their father, as well as their brother, but still these sisters are one of the greatest historic figures I've come to learn about.

It's the time the three sisters to make some quick decisions. At the beginning, it stumbles upon them, but very soon they overcome and takes the responsibility since they are very enthusiast in the literature work. At present, we're witnessing the rise of voice against the gender inequality in society all over the world in all the fields. Even the last week, Elizabeth Banks falsely accused the Steven Spielberg for the same reason. In this film, it was not exactly a fight or protest against such discrimination in society. Though their contribution, their achievement was the beginning of the new path for women of those eras and onwards.

They took paper and pen, and began to express the reality of the society in words rather to focus on the trend in literature subjects. Then came the publication. Even newbie men would struggle on that phase. It was one of the best juncture in this storytelling. Their struggle is not merely to turn their work into a book, but the family, especially their brother who was drifting away from everything posed a great challenge to them to look after him. And so their aging father.

When the film enters the third act, there are more twist and turns in the tale. Throughout, there were lots of ups and downs in the narration. Suddenly there comes an interesting scene and then for next 5-10 minutes falls back with a casual life event. Great screenplay and dialogues. The music was even better and suitable to the tale. The locations were beautiful, especially if you love chilly English weather and the countryside hilly views. One of the best depiction of the 19th century in a film. A special awards should be given to the set decoration. After watching the film, I browsed about that on the net and I stunned. The production quality was a genius, particularly for a television film.

Amazing casting. I should praise the director who also wrote for it. He's originally a writer who worked with some great television shows, and now this is his first film directional debut. One of the scenes about the original identity at close to the end of the film was really a goosebump part. It all depends how you yourself dissolve in the narration. I thought it was too short, even though it ran for two hours. That's why I wished it should have been a television series, to I stay with it for a little longer.

A perfect title, I loved everything about the film. The costumes were simple, but very good. And the film was very emotional at the end, to learn what happened to those three sisters. The filmmakers avoided that sentimental part, but I would have liked if they had covered them visually than the texts. Then it would have been one of the best tearjerker and then more family audiences would have jumped in to watch.

Sometimes, it's very satisfying to learn about how those masterpieces were made than reading and watching those masterpiece books and films respectively. Now it's in the line of 'Finding Nevreland', 'Saving Mr. Banks' and a few others that revealed the truth behind the great works. My only disappointment was, it should have been either a theatrical film or a television series. No offense, all the actors were so awesome in this film. Those three sisters stole the show. It was a powerful performance I've seen in the recent time. But a big screen film with popular stars would help reach the product widely.

This is now one of my favourite films of all time. We watch films often, but some people occasionally, even though we won't end up watching masterpiece all the time. It's a rare thing and this is one them. If you are interested in literature, biography, history or seeking an inspiration, this is the film to go for. Since I watched it, I could not take off the memories of the film and focus on other things. Really, it made my day and the whole week. So it's a two thumbs up high in the air from me. Highly recommended.

9.5/10

I anticipated great things from this film, especially seeing Jonathan Pryce cast as the Rev. Brontë. Being a Brontë sisters fan, I was looking forward to watching a wonderful biopic. So I was very disappointed that the focus of the film lay mainly with their tragic brother, Branwell. There was little in the way of how the sisters developed their writing and absolutely no mention of Charlotte's marriage. It does go into some detail of their struggle to be taken seriously as female authors, but it feels rushed. I feel that that the sisters have been sidelined, rather than being the focus of the film. So much more could have been done with this, with far less focus on Branwell and more on the sisters themselves...after all, it's supposed to be their story, considering the film's title. The final footage of the Brontë museum is unnecessary and the camera spins round too fast....not sure why it was felt that this should even be included. All that said, the acting was brilliant and the cinematography, stunning.

Really excellently put together and not like any way we've seen the Brontes before. Sets and locations spot on right even down to the regency couch that Emily is supposed to have died on. I wondered about the sexless names. Did the sisters feel that what they wrote about for example Wuthering Heights, was thought too violent and nasty to have been written by a woman? Anyway it seems to have been handled tastefully by the writer and not overdone on any score to please a more modern audience. It must have been nice for them to reveal themselves but at the same time such a big deal for them being such private people. I noticed it didn't go into the other deaths. I was wondering was Emily going to die on the sofa. All the actresses playing the sisters were great. Charlie Murphy (Anne) did the accent well given that she's not British but Irish in real life.

At turns dark and moody and hopeful and poignant, this movie has it all, at least of what you could expect from a biopic/period drama: wonderful costumes, excellent cinematography and settings, a good script and straight historical facts. all the three actresses played their roles exceptionally: charlotte was fierce although depressed and sad; emily was strong, but damaged; anne was overlooked, yet hopeful.

i loved the sisters' interaction with their father - although we don't really know much of patrick, his portrayal in the movie was touching. it also touches on some of the more autobiographical elements on brontes' novels, which i appreciated.

so, "to walk invisible" is nothing less than a 3d textbook with all the saucy and gloomy details they don't show you. a rare treat, one i can only highly, highly recommend.

This was a lovely biopic of the Bronte sisters - perhaps a little too much of their brother, though. Several commenters noted difficulty understanding the dialogue. I have found that closed captioning is an absolute necessity when viewing anything British. Just a suggestion.

Loved the story but I have to admit that I, too, felt like it was too much Bramwell.

Also the music was so loud a lot of the time you couldn't understand what was being said.

I really don't want to compare it to the lovely I think French 70's version, but both were so nice, this one really laid in on the more obscure brother and shed some light there were hitherto there was none and even tough it was rough to be apart of his degeneration it really was nice how it affected the sisters and their art. I absolutely loved it and for me personally loved the Anne character here and I appreciated how they captured her heart in most scenes it was evident to see the lil' angel burning like a flame of creative sweet adorable cute passion inside Anne!