The Hours (2002)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 115m
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, John C. Reilly, Toni Collette, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Eileen Atkins
Synopsis:
An episode in Virginia Woolf's life, when she and her husband decide to leave Richmond (sanctuary or prison from life's jolts?) for the bustle of London, is interwoven with two other stories, themselves interrelated, which adumbrate the same predicament.
Review:
Mrs Dalloway is the most visible unifying feature of this finely mounted film, but that and other more formal signifiers, such as flowers being put in vases separated by decades, merely point to the very Woolfian theme of life best appreciated by contrast with death. With characters that could so easily seem self-indulgent much depends on the performances, and they are superb. Philip Glass's majestically under/overstated music provides the perfect meditative background for what is a totally absorbing piece of cinema.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 115m
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, John C. Reilly, Toni Collette, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Eileen Atkins
Synopsis:
An episode in Virginia Woolf's life, when she and her husband decide to leave Richmond (sanctuary or prison from life's jolts?) for the bustle of London, is interwoven with two other stories, themselves interrelated, which adumbrate the same predicament.
Review:
Mrs Dalloway is the most visible unifying feature of this finely mounted film, but that and other more formal signifiers, such as flowers being put in vases separated by decades, merely point to the very Woolfian theme of life best appreciated by contrast with death. With characters that could so easily seem self-indulgent much depends on the performances, and they are superb. Philip Glass's majestically under/overstated music provides the perfect meditative background for what is a totally absorbing piece of cinema.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 115m
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, John C. Reilly, Toni Collette, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Eileen Atkins
Synopsis:
An episode in Virginia Woolf's life, when she and her husband decide to leave Richmond (sanctuary or prison from life's jolts?) for the bustle of London, is interwoven with two other stories, themselves interrelated, which adumbrate the same predicament.
Review:
Mrs Dalloway is the most visible unifying feature of this finely mounted film, but that and other more formal signifiers, such as flowers being put in vases separated by decades, merely point to the very Woolfian theme of life best appreciated by contrast with death. With characters that could so easily seem self-indulgent much depends on the performances, and they are superb. Philip Glass's majestically under/overstated music provides the perfect meditative background for what is a totally absorbing piece of cinema.