Director: Stephen Daldry
Genre: Drama/
Romance
Runtime: 110
minutes
Year:
2002
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Ed Harris,
Stephen Dillane, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Miranda Richardson, Claire
Danes, Margot Martindale, Jeff Daniels
I WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR MY 2023 MOVIE CHALLENGE.
WEEK 3: AN ANTHOLOGY MOVIE
Description: The story of
how the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” affects three generations of women, all of whom,
in one way or another, have to deal with suicide in their lives.
Review: Three women. One writes, the other reads and the last lives. The words
of Virginai Woolf’s famous book “Mrs. Dalloway” give shape and dimension to
their tragic lives. Based on the Pullitzer Prize-winning nover “The Hours” by
Michael Cunningham, the story was a valid attempt to illustrate how literature and
true life can be connected. And how immortal stories are even when their writers
and protagonists die.
The three women who sometimes
effortlessly blur into one character in the book are pulled apart for the film
in three powerful roles played by Nicole Kidman (as Virginia Woolf), Meryl
Streep (as the contemporary New York Carissa Vaughan) and Julianne Moore (as a
1950s housewife. Their fates are shown as they wear the same kind of earrings,
and, thanks to ingenious editing, relive or read the same scenes from “Mrs.
Dalloway” at the same time.
It is a wondrous conclusion
to have to see, almost a century after Mrs. Dalloway lived, that, in Daldry's
view, personal freedom is more than ever bound by sexual and familial ties.
Rating: 4/
5
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