Mrs Dalloway
– As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for another of her legendary parties, she finds hersel..
As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for another of her legendary parties, she finds herself haunted by figures and scenes from her passionate adolescence.
20 Feb 1998
English
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Marleen Gorris
Eileen Atkins (screenplay), Virginia Woolf (novel)
Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox
London, summer 1923. Clarissa, MP Richard Dalloway's wife, sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time Septimus Warren Smith, a young man who survived the battlefields of Europe, is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset form of shell-shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In the course of one day, Peter, Clarissa's passionate old suitor, returns from India and is invited to her party; Septimus commits suicide; Clarissa relives a day in her youth (and her reasons for her choice of a life with the reliable Richard Dalloway).
2 wins & 1 nomination.
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