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    Mrs. Dalloway

    Marleen Gorris 1997 Holland Fiction color 970min Dutch 35mm
    This adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf stars Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway, a woman in her mid-'50s living in London five years after the end of WWI.

    As Mrs. Dalloway prepares an elaborate dinner party at the home she shares with her husband, a prominent politician, she finds herself looking back on her life 30 years before, when as a young woman (played by Natascha McElhone), she was in love with two different men - the solid and safe Richard Dalloway (John Standing) and the exciting, free-spirited Peter Walsh (Michael Kitchen).

    Clarissa also recalls her close friendship with Sally (Lena Headey), even as she wonders if she made the right choice in marrying Richard - especially when Peter makes an unexpected appearance at the party. Mrs. Dalloway also finds herself deeply moved by the plight of Septimus Smith (Rupert Graves), a young man whom she has never met who was severely injured during the war.

    Director

    Marleen Gorris

    One of the Netherlands's best-known filmmakers and an important, often provocative voice in world cinema, writer and director Marleen Gorris is renowned- and, in some circles, reviled- for making unapologetically feminist films that assert the rights of women as they question the patriarchy that often represses them. Gorris earned particular international recognition for Antonia's Line, a portrait of several generations of Dutch women that won a 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Born in Holland's Limburg region in 1948, Gorris studied drama at home and abroad. She began working as a filmmaker with almost no previous experience in the cinema and made an auspicious writing and directorial debut in 1982 with De Stilte Rond (A Question of Silence).

    Marleen Gorris

    2003 Caroline

    2000 The Luzhin Defence

    1997 Mrs. Dalloway

    1995 Antonia's Line

    1990 The Last Lsland

    1984 Broken Mirrors

    1982 A Question of Silence

    Producer: Chris J. Ball, Stephen Bayly

    Director: Marleen Gorris

    Screenplay: Eileen Atkins

    Cinematographer: Sue Gibson

    Editor: Michiel Reichwein

    Sound: Gert De Bruun

    Music: Dick Bakker, Hugh den Ouden

    Casts: Natascha MaElhone, Vanessa Redgrave

    Language: Dutch

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