Plot & Details
This adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf stars Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway, a woman in her mid-'50s living in London five years after the end of WWI. As Mrs. Dalloway prepares an elaborate dinner party at the home she shares with her husband, a prominent politician, she finds herself looking back on her life 30 years before, when as a young woman (played by (Natascha McElhone), she was in love with two different men -- the solid and safe Richard Dalloway (John Standing) and the exciting, free-spirited Peter Walsh (Michael Kitchen). Clarissa also recalls her close friendship with Sally (Lena Headey) as she wonders if she made the right choice in marrying Richard -- especially when Peter makes an unexpected appearance at her party. Mrs. Dalloway also finds herself moved in a way she never anticipated by the plight of Septimus Smith (Rupert Graves), a young man severely injured during the war whom she has never met. Mrs. Dalloway was directed by Marleen Gorris, whose previous credit was the international success Antonia's Line.
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
- Genre(s): Drama,Foreign
- Run Time: 97min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 02/20/1998
- DVD Release Date: 01/28/2003
- Distributor(s): Paramount
- Director(s): Marleen Gorris
- Starring: Vanessa Redgrave , Natascha McElhone , Rupert Graves , Michael Kitchen , John Standing
- Themes: Party Film,Haunted By the Past
- Tone: Elegiac,Enigmatic,Melancholy,Atmospheric,Compassionate,Gentle,Literate,Reflective,Sentimental,Talky,Intimate,Understated
- Keywords: dinner-party,love-triangle,old-flame,reminiscence,war
- Language: English
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