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==Plot==
==Plot==
On a beautiful morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway sets out from her large house in [[Westminster]] to choose the flowers for a party she is holding that evening. Her teenage daughter Elizabeth is unsympathetic, preferring the company of the evangelical Miss Kilman. A passionate old suitor, Peter Walsh, turns up and does not disguise the mess he has made of his career and his love life. For Clarissa this confirms her choice in preferring the unexciting but affectionate and dependable Richard Dalloway. At her party Sally arrives; once Clarissa's [[lesbian]] lover, she is now wife of a self-made millionaire and mother of five.
On a beautiful morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway sets out from her large house in [[Westminster]] to choose the flowers for a party she is holding that evening. Her teenage daughter Elizabeth is unsympathetic, preferring the company of the evangelical Miss Kilman. A passionate old suitor, Peter Walsh, turns up and failing to disguise the turmoil he has created in his career and love life. For Clarissa this confirms her choice in preferring the unexciting but affectionate and dependable Richard Dalloway. At her party Sally arrives; once Clarissa's [[lesbian]] lover, she is now wife of a self-made millionaire and mother of five.


Intercut with Clarissa's present and past is the story of another couple. Septimus was a decorated officer in the [[First World War]] but is now collapsing under the strain of delayed shell-shock, in which he is paralysed by horrible flashbacks and consumed with guilt over the death of his closest comrade. His wife Rezia tries to get him psychiatric help but the doctors she consults are little use: when one commits him to a mental hospital, he jumps from a window to his death. The doctor turns up late at Clarissa's party, apologising because he had to attend to a patient's suicide. Clarissa stands by a window and ponders what it would mean to jump.
Intercut with Clarissa's present and past is the story of another couple. Septimus was a decorated officer in the [[First World War]] but is now collapsing under the strain of delayed shell-shock, in which he is paralysed by horrible flashbacks and consumed with guilt over the death of his closest comrade. His wife Rezia tries to get him psychiatric help but the doctors she consults are little use: when one commits him to a mental hospital, he jumps from a window to his death. The doctor turns up late at Clarissa's party, apologising because he had to attend to a patient's suicide. Clarissa stands by a window and ponders what it would mean to jump.

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Mrs Dalloway
Directed byMarleen Gorris
Screenplay byEileen Atkins
Based onMrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Produced byStephen Bayly
Starring
CinematographySue Gibson
Edited byMichiel Reichwein
Music byIlona Sekacz
Production
companies
Distributed byArtificial Eye
First Look International
Release dates
Running time
97 mins
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
Netherlands
LanguageEnglish
Box office$4 million

Mrs Dalloway is a 1997 British drama film, a co-production by the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands, directed by Marleen Gorris and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone and Michael Kitchen.[1]

Based on the 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf, and moving continually between the present and the past that is in the characters' heads, it covers a day in the life of Mrs Dalloway, wife of a prosperous politician in London.

Plot

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On a beautiful morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway sets out from her large house in Westminster to choose the flowers for a party she is holding that evening. Her teenage daughter Elizabeth is unsympathetic, preferring the company of the evangelical Miss Kilman. A passionate old suitor, Peter Walsh, turns up and failing to disguise the turmoil he has created in his career and love life. For Clarissa this confirms her choice in preferring the unexciting but affectionate and dependable Richard Dalloway. At her party Sally arrives; once Clarissa's lesbian lover, she is now wife of a self-made millionaire and mother of five.

Intercut with Clarissa's present and past is the story of another couple. Septimus was a decorated officer in the First World War but is now collapsing under the strain of delayed shell-shock, in which he is paralysed by horrible flashbacks and consumed with guilt over the death of his closest comrade. His wife Rezia tries to get him psychiatric help but the doctors she consults are little use: when one commits him to a mental hospital, he jumps from a window to his death. The doctor turns up late at Clarissa's party, apologising because he had to attend to a patient's suicide. Clarissa stands by a window and ponders what it would mean to jump.

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Reception

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The film grossed £200,892 ($0.3 million) in the United Kingdom[2] and $3,309,421 in the United States and Canada.[3] Mrs Dalloway received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 71% based on 34 reviews.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Mrs Dalloway (1998)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017.
  2. ^ "British biz at the box office". Variety. 14 December 1998. p. 72.
  3. ^ Mrs Dalloway at Box Office Mojo
  4. ^ "Mrs. Dalloway". Rotten Tomatoes.
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