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Mrs. Dalloway

Country: UK | USA | Netherlands, Language: English, 97 mins

  • Director: Marleen Gorris
  • Writer: Eileen Atkins; Virginia Woolf
  • Producer: Christopher Ball; Stephen Bayly

CGiii Comment

Redgrave's performance is perfectly pitched.

Atkins does a fine job with the adaptation.

And, Gorris achieves a gentle heartbreak.

Beautifully done.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

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; Settimus commits suicide; Clarissa relives a day in her youth (and her reasons for her choice of a life with the reliable Richard Dalloway).

Cast & Characters

Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway;
Natascha McElhone as Young Clarissa;
Michael Kitchen as Peter Walsh;
Alan Cox as Young Peter;
Sarah Badel as Lady Rosseter;
Lena Headey as Young Sally;
John Standing as Richard Dalloway;
Robert Portal as Young Richard;
Oliver Ford Davies as Hugh Whitbread;
Hal Cruttenden as Young Hugh;
Rupert Graves as Septimus Warren Smith;
Amelia Bullmore as Rezia Warren Smith;
Margaret Tyzack as Lady Bruton;
Robert Hardy as Sir William Bradshaw;
Richenda Carey as Lady Bradshaw