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). —IMDb
Marleen Gorris (born 9 December 1948, Roermond) is a writer-director from the Netherlands. Gorris is known as an outspoken feminist and supporter of gay and lesbian issues which is reflected in much of her work. She wrote and directed the films A Question of Silence (1982), Broken Mirrors (1984), The Last Island (1991), and Antonia’s Line (1995 – Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film), Mrs. Dalloway (1997 – based on the novel by Virginia Woolf) and The Luzhin Defence (2000 – originally a Nabokov novel). She is signed to direct Heaven and Earth, a film about Dr. James Miranda Barry. —Wikipedia
Like this film, good and bad memory brings back to life in one days celebration..great British actor!
This adaptation of the novel ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ uses less of the free interior perspective styled by author Virginia Woolf. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Clarissa Dalloway and is beautiful in herlead role… read review