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| Mrs Dalloway [1998] | ![Mrs Dalloway [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51498RR37QL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Marleen Gorris
Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha Mcelhone, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox, Sarah Badel
Studio: Artificial Eye
Category: DVD
Buy New: £27.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 33554
Format: Anamorphic, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 97 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5021866157306
ASIN: B00008IAQE
Release Date: February 24, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: February 20, 1998
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 Duke or Cigarette ? December 10, 2008
As a whole, this film is lovely. It has rich characters and rich characterisation - and some lovely interiors and exteriors and frocks. We still do that kind of period thing very well. br /It's a gentle film, and if you are expecting fast-paced action, you won't get it - what you will get is some fine acting (although why Vanessa Redgrave's performance was once described as 'towering' I don't know. She's very good. She usually is, but 'towering', no.) Other reviewers have summed up the plot (if 'plot' there be) more than adequately, so I'm left with a question:br /Why, when you consider the very large number of people involved in the making of a film like this, is Vanessa Redgrave allowed to get away with her pointless mispronunciation of 'Marlborough'? She does it more than once. She is supposed to be talking of a Duke - not a cigarette, but unfortunately, nobody saw fit to tell her the difference. I don't believe that it was a conscious production decision to alter subtly a name as well-known as that one - if you're going to do that you change it altogether. No, I suspect more that we are in danger of flaunting our ignorance. Not for the first time in period dramas. br /(Either that, or Miss Redgrave is making her own left-wing stab at what she would call 'The Establishment'. And has been allowed to get away with it.) Unfortunately - for me, anyway - it simply serves to alienate me from what is otherwise a nicely-crafted piece of work.br /A pity. br /But the film's still a good one, and worth a look.br /
 beautiful April 26, 2008
a really lovely film, the story captured my heart and moved me awfully. Woolf's creation is a genius that i doubt could be matched today and this film does it perfect justice. Redgrave is, as always, brilliant and brings a grown up yet youthful feel to the situation. A really lovely film about loosing love and finding it again.
 A Beautiful Zero March 17, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Another reviewer has commented that, until seeing this film, he thought Virginia Woolf's novels unfilmable. Well, I have never read her work and if this is a faithful representation, never will. To my way of thinking, this film is without plot, without meaning, without interest. br /br /The story (inasmuch as there is one) looks back from the 1920's to the period long before the First World War, perhaps to around 1890 at a guess. Various connected and (apparently) unconnected characters are seen then and in the early 1920's. The acting and characterization are both superb, but it all just leads nowhere. A waste of time.
Rather pointless plot November 23, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I thought the film was rather aimless. The kiss between the women led to nothing. The guy whom committed suicide was not necessary other than for Mrs Dalloway to make a comment towards the end of the film. Her daughters outing with a lady was not worth showing either. And I could not undertstand why Clarissa would reject her first suitor. Her argument that he was asking too much of her was rather a weak excuse. Ok, so I have not read the book so I don't know how true it is to the book and whether there are bits in there that would make more sense. Instead I just watched it with an open mind and appreciate the film for what it is. Apart from that, the scene was nicely shot and the colour and costume was quite sumptuous.
Mrs. Dalloway plans a party and remembers young Clarissa September 26, 2004
33 out of 39 found this review helpful
Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway" examines one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, in which the title character prepares for a party and looks back on the point in her life when she choose Richard Dalloway over Peter Walsh. Meanwhile, the mentally ill war veteran Septimus Warren Smith spends his last day on earth. The action of the novel exists primarily in the consciousness of the characters, for the story itself is essentially plotless and written in the stream-of-consciousness style of James Joyce. Although written in the omniscient third-person voice, Woolf manages to enter the consciousness of her various characters, who are not as unconnected as they might seem to be, and reveal their feelings. pTranslating this novel to the screen requires that it be done by those who have a strong understanding and affection for the authors and her characters. Vanessa Redgrave is clearly one of those people and she commissioned Eileen Atkins to write the script so that she could play the title character. Atkins is a Woolf scholar who not only played the author in a one-woman stage piece but also wrote "Vita and Virginia," in which she and Redgrave played Woolf and her lover Vita Sackville-West. Atkins chooses to allow us only into the inner thoughts of Mrs. Dalloway, using voice-over narration to reveal the thoughts that she would never speak out loud. Those who have read the novel might not enjoy the film more than those who have not, since there are always limitations with bringing any literary masterpiece to the screen, but they will certainly understand it more, especially the first part of the film.pA strength of this 1997 film is how easily we accept that Natascha McElhone as the young Clarissa grows up to be Vanessa Redgrave's Mrs. Dalloway. It is young Clarissa who chooses young Richard (Robert Portal) over not only young Peter (Alan Cox), but also over young Sally Selton (Lena Headey), whose kiss bespeaks something that is not going to even be thought about. Now Richard Dalloway (John Standing) is a cabinet official, Peter Walsh (Michael Kitchen) has come home from India, and Sally is now Lady Rosseter (Sarah Badel). Of course Mrs. Dalloway's thoughts go back to her fateful decision, made over the objections of her friends, when she accepted her life of comfortable sameness. But her concern over the evening's party is just as big of a concern. For those who are trying to figure out the point of the story the seemingly unrelated plotline involving Septimus Smith (Rupert Graves) and his Italian wife (Amelia Bullmore) helps the pieces come together, especially once Mrs. Dalloway's thoughts provide the big picture. pDutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris, who won as Oscar for "Antonia's Line," brings this film in at 97 minutes and while I think "Mrs. Dalloway" the film captures the essence of the novel, I cannot find it approaches the depth. What makes the novel profound is not the end point that it reaches when we reach the close of a day in the life of Clarissa Dallowy, but the journey through her jumbled thoughts. For Christmas I gave my eldest daughter the movie "The Hours" along with the Michael Cunningham novel and Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," and I would think others would benefit from immersing themselves in the works of, and about, Virginia Woolf.
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