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Mrs. Dalloway

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United Kingdom

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Vanessa Redgrave

Natascha McElhone

Michael Kitchen

Alan Cox

Sarah Badel

Lena Headey

John Standing

Robert Portal

Oliver Ford Davies

Hal Cruttenden

Rupert Graves

Amelia Bullmore

Margaret Tyzack

Robert Hardy

Richenda Carey

Katie Carr

Selina Cadell

Amanda Drew

Phyllis Calvert

John Franklyn-Robbins

Alistair Petrie

Rupert Baker

Janet Henfrey

Polly Pritchett

Jane Whittenshaw

Susie Fairfax

Hilda Braid

Derek Smee

Fanny Carby

Denis Lill

Richard Stirling

Neville Phillips

Peter Cellier

Kate Binchy

Edward Jewesbury

Tony Steedman

Faith Brook

Nancy Nevinson

Christopher Staines

Oscar Pearce

Reg Thomason

Marleen Gorris

Hans de Weers

Sue Gibson

Virginia Woolf

Eileen Atkins

Ilona Sekacz

Lisa Katselas

Stephen Bayly

David Richens

Judy Pepperdine

Michiel Reichwein

Celestia Fox

Susie Liggat

Paola Minazzato

Maria Uitdehaag

Robin Sales

Tony Pierce-Roberts

Simon Perry

Ismail Merchant

James Ivory

Maria Slough

Danuta Skarszewska

Duncan Rodger

Sue Matthews

Nigel Marchant

Sue Lefton

Kate Jones

Anthony Davies

Pete Daly

Tony Coroon

Danielle Brandon

Hugh den Ouden

Dick Bakker

Susan Mather

Stephen Lawrence

Jilly Greenham

Jeanne Ferber

Jonathan Sales

Bert Nijdam

Gerrit Netten

Mark Lane

Nienke de Wit

Alyson Smith

Adrian Simmons

Christopher Prins

Michael Price

Jane McDonagh

Jill Avery

Ray Knight

Joe Wright

Alf Tramontin

Ronnie Savory

Steve Pattenden

Roberta Parkin

Ian Foster

Gary Colkett

Shaun Cobley

Steve Burgess

Richard Broome

Paul Borg

Andreas Petrides

Marie-Jeanne Wyckmans

Wiebe van der Vliet

Brian Simmons

John Pitt

Herman Pieëte

Marc Nolens

Shaun Mills

Nick Meijer

Peter Glossop

Linda Ward

Sara Partis

Jim Parker

Iain Hill

Freddie Harrison

Colin Harris

James Fennessy

Richard Whelan

Emma Pounds

Emma Griffiths

Sara Desmond

Maggie Webb

Elizabeth Moss

Maureen McGill

Christine Greenwood

Tricia Cameron

Jane Body

Jeanne Vertigan

Carlotta Barrow

Alison Wratten

Nik Callan

William Tyrer

Bill Shepherd

Paul Frift

Simon Curtis

Christopher Ball

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It's the morning of her party, and the eponymous "Clarissa" (Vanessa Redgrave) is a little apprehensive. She's married to a politician (John Standing) who has jilted her for luncheon on this important day, so she sets off to buy some flowers then returns to find she has an unexpected visitor. "Peter" (Michael Kitchen) and she have some history, and as the day unfolds we learn a little of just how that played out thanks to some flashbacks with Alan Cox and Natascha McElhone as their younger selves. These depict the build up to decisions and choices that maybe one, or both, wish now had been made differently. We are also offered a softly dramatised glimpse of the political environment that prevailed in Britain shortly after the end of the Great War. The landed gentry now struggling to maintain their previous degrees of influence, the increasing role of women - the changing political landscape, the end of deference are all woven into the fabric as the party looms and it's hostesss stresses. In parallel, there is the far more interesting storyline developing with a convincing Rupert Graves as the shell-shocked "Septimus Warren Smith". He's returned from the war struggling with any sort of re-adjustment to peacetime life and that's causing considerable distress for his wife (Amelia Bullmore) that isn't really being helped by psychiatrist "Sir William Bradshaw" (Robert Hardy). Generally, this is a grand looking drama featuring an who's who of established British talent, but the effort from Redgrave borders a little on the soporific and aside from the emotionally charged scenes with Graves, the whole pace of the film struggles to get out of second gear as it meanders along offering us a rather lacklustre observation of the lives of people in whom, mostly, I had little interest. It's perfectly watchable and is the kind of film we Brits do well, but it's a bit lightweight on the character front.

It's the morning of her party, and the eponymous "Clarissa" (Vanessa Redgrave) is a little apprehensive. She's married to a politician (John Standing) who has jilted her for luncheon on this important day, so she sets off to buy some flowers then returns to find she has an unexpected visitor. "Peter" (Michael Kitchen) and she have some history, and as the day unfolds we learn a little of just how that played out thanks to some flashbacks with Alan Cox and Natascha McElhone as their younger selves. These depict the build up to decisions and choices that maybe one, or both, wish now had been made differently. We are also offered a softly dramatised glimpse of the political environment that prevailed in Britain shortly after the end of the Great War. The landed gentry now struggling to maintain their previous degrees of influence, the increasing role of women - the changing political landscape, the end of deference are all woven into the fabric as the party looms and it's hostesss stresses. In parallel, there is the far more interesting storyline developing with a convincing Rupert Graves as the shell-shocked "Septimus Warren Smith". He's returned from the war struggling with any sort of re-adjustment to peacetime life and that's causing considerable distress for his wife (Amelia Bullmore) that isn't really being helped by psychiatrist "Sir William Bradshaw" (Robert Hardy). Generally, this is a grand looking drama featuring an who's who of established British talent, but the effort from Redgrave borders a little of the soporific and aside from the emotionally charged scenes with Graves, the whole pace of the film struggles to get out of second gear as it meanders along offering us a rather lacklustre observation of the lives of people in whom, mostly, I had little interest. It's perfectly watchable and is the kind of film we Brits do well, but it's a bit lightweight on the character front.

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Lena Headey

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