Mrs Dalloway (1997)
Country: US/GB/NL
Technical: col 97m
Director: Marleen Gorris
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen, John Standing, Rupert Graves, Lena Headey
Synopsis:
While planning a party, a middle-aged MP's wife ponders an idyllic summer past when she gave up her lover to marry into a life of security. At the same time a veteran of the Great War suffering from delayed shell-shock contemplates suicide.
Review:
Intriguing evocation of the privileged happiness of the well-off and the horror suffered by those in the trenches; all is made clear by the protagonist's musings from her balcony at the end: it is about courage. A genteel entertainment, at times adventurous but mostly reminiscent of the very Englishness decried by one of its characters; impeccably produced, though with the off-the-peg sheen of made for TV drama. It does, however, speak tellingly and humanely of the pangs left by life's decisions, and the allusiveness of Woolf's prose style is successfully evoked through editing and voiceover.
Country: US/GB/NL
Technical: col 97m
Director: Marleen Gorris
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen, John Standing, Rupert Graves, Lena Headey
Synopsis:
While planning a party, a middle-aged MP's wife ponders an idyllic summer past when she gave up her lover to marry into a life of security. At the same time a veteran of the Great War suffering from delayed shell-shock contemplates suicide.
Review:
Intriguing evocation of the privileged happiness of the well-off and the horror suffered by those in the trenches; all is made clear by the protagonist's musings from her balcony at the end: it is about courage. A genteel entertainment, at times adventurous but mostly reminiscent of the very Englishness decried by one of its characters; impeccably produced, though with the off-the-peg sheen of made for TV drama. It does, however, speak tellingly and humanely of the pangs left by life's decisions, and the allusiveness of Woolf's prose style is successfully evoked through editing and voiceover.
Country: US/GB/NL
Technical: col 97m
Director: Marleen Gorris
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen, John Standing, Rupert Graves, Lena Headey
Synopsis:
While planning a party, a middle-aged MP's wife ponders an idyllic summer past when she gave up her lover to marry into a life of security. At the same time a veteran of the Great War suffering from delayed shell-shock contemplates suicide.
Review:
Intriguing evocation of the privileged happiness of the well-off and the horror suffered by those in the trenches; all is made clear by the protagonist's musings from her balcony at the end: it is about courage. A genteel entertainment, at times adventurous but mostly reminiscent of the very Englishness decried by one of its characters; impeccably produced, though with the off-the-peg sheen of made for TV drama. It does, however, speak tellingly and humanely of the pangs left by life's decisions, and the allusiveness of Woolf's prose style is successfully evoked through editing and voiceover.