Mrs Dalloway (film)

Mrs Dalloway is a 1997 British drama film directed by Marleen Gorris and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone and Michael Kitchen.^[1] It is an adaptation of the novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. It is a co-production by the United Kingdom, United States and the Netherlands.

Plot

Clarissa Dalloway sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time in London, a young man is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset (the year is 1923) form of shell-shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In the course of one day, Peter, a passionate old suitor, returns from India, there is a suicide, Clarissa relives a day in her youth (and her reasons for her choice of a life with the reliable Richard Dalloway).

Partial cast

• Vanessa Redgrave – Mrs Clarissa Dalloway
• Natascha McElhone – Young Clarissa
• Michael Kitchen – Peter Walsh
• Alan Cox – Young Peter
• Sarah Badel – Lady Rosseter
• Lena Headey – Young Sally
• John Standing – Richard Dalloway
• Robert Portal – Young Richard
• Oliver Ford Davies – Hugh Whitbread
• Hal Cruttenden – Young Hugh
• Rupert Graves – Septimus Warren Smith
• Amelia Bullmore – Rezia Warren Smith
• Margaret Tyzack – Lady Bruton
• Robert Hardy – Sir William Bradshaw
• Richenda Carey – Lady Bradshaw
• Katie Carr – Elizabeth Dalloway
• Selina Cadell – Miss Kilman
• Amanda Drew – Lucy
• Phyllis Calvert – Aunt Helena

References

1. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/554123

External links

• Mrs Dalloway at the Internet Movie Database
• Mrs Dalloway at Rotten Tomatoes