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Mrs Dalloway (1997)

Mrs Dalloway poster
Original title
Mrs. Dalloway
Directed by
Marleen Gorris
Genre
drama film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
14A
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 75 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in 1920s London, prepares for a party she is hosting that evening. The film weaves together her present day with memories of her youth and a past love, revealing the choices that shaped her life.

melancholicintrospectiveslow-burnpoeticnostalgicbittersweetatmosphericelegiac

What happens

Mrs Dalloway is a 1997 British drama film, a co-production by the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands, directed by Marleen Gorris and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone and Michael Kitchen. Based on the 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf, and moving continually between the present and the past that is in the characters' heads, it covers a day in the life of Mrs Dalloway, whose husband is a prosperous politician in London. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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