[Reel-Reviews] The Hours (4 stars)
This is a beautifully woven film, due at least in part to Michael Cunningham’s source novel and Stephen Daldry’s direction. The fact that they’ve also got one of the best female casts of modern times might also have helped… David Hare, who adapted the novel for the screenplay, has said that despite comments that the book was “unfilmable”, he thought it was one of the most cinematic books he’d read. I’d have to agree…
In 1923, Virginia Woolf sits in her study trying to write her novel, “Mrs Dalloway”, a day in the life study of a socialite hostess with hidden depths…
In 1950s America, Laura Brown is an apparently good suburban wife, expecting her second child and baking a cake for her husband’s birthday. But she can hardly drag herself away from reading “Mrs Dalloway”…
In 2001 in New York, Clarissa Vaughan is party-planning for her award-winning poet, AIDS-infected friend and ex-lover Richard, by whom she was nicknamed “Mrs. Dalloway”…
So, one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it – whichever way you look at it, “Mrs Dalloway” is at the centre of everything.
A study of womanhood, parenting, loss, death, liberation, choice, and love.
In 1923, Virginia Woolf sits in her study trying to write her novel, “Mrs Dalloway”, a day in the life study of a socialite hostess with hidden depths…
In 1950s America, Laura Brown is an apparently good suburban wife, expecting her second child and baking a cake for her husband’s birthday. But she can hardly drag herself away from reading “Mrs Dalloway”…
In 2001 in New York, Clarissa Vaughan is party-planning for her award-winning poet, AIDS-infected friend and ex-lover Richard, by whom she was nicknamed “Mrs. Dalloway”…
So, one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it – whichever way you look at it, “Mrs Dalloway” is at the centre of everything.
A study of womanhood, parenting, loss, death, liberation, choice, and love.
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