My female crush is Keira Knightley. I’m so in love – the voice, the eyebrows, the slightly higgledy-piggledy teeth – that I will devour the second season of Black Doves when it launches on Netflix next week. I have watched her in Atonement countless times. She’s luminous, I think, as her imperfect smile lights up the screen. Charming. Real.
But I watched that film again the other day and was horrified to realise it’s no longer Knightley who catches my eye, but Vanessa Redgrave.
Her character, Briony, comes of age during the war, before the birth of the NHS. She endured rationing
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