Dakota Fanning: Little Red Riding 'Effie'

Dakota Fanning kicks up her heel as she continues to film scenes for Effie in Venice, Italy on Wednesday morning (November 30).

The 17-year-old actress was spotted around the piazza with costar Greg Wise, as her character gets her first taste of Venice.

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Dakota plays the title character of the film, which follows her doomed marriage to art critic John Ruskin (Wise) in 1840′s London. Despite her beauty, Ruskin didn’t consummate the marriage and the devastated Effie eventually fell in love with Ruskin’s protégé, painter John Everett Milias (Tom Sturridge).

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