Mrs Dalloway (film)
| Mrs Dalloway | |
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| Directed by | Marleen Gorris |
| Produced by | Stephen Bayly |
| Screenplay by | Eileen Atkins |
| Based on |
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf |
| Starring |
Vanessa Redgrave Natascha McElhone Michael Kitchen Lena Headey Alan Cox |
| Music by | Ilona Sekacz |
| Cinematography | Sue Gibson |
| Edited by | Michiel Reichwein |
Release dates |
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Running time | 97 mins |
| Country |
United Kingdom United States Netherlands |
| Language | English |
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
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