Mrs Dalloway

Feb 20 1998 PG-13 1h 37m
Drama, Romance

Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

Plot

London, summer 1923. Clarissa (Vanessa Redgrave), Member of Parliament Richard Dalloway's (Sir John Standing's) wife, sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time Septimus Warren Smith (Rupert Graves), a young man who survived the battlefields of Europe, is suffering from a nightmarish delayed on-set form of shell shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In the course of one day, Peter (Michael Kitchen), Clarissa's passionate old suitor, returns from India and is invited to her party, Septimus commits suicide, Clarissa relives a day in her youth (and her reasons for her choice of a life with the reliable Richard Dalloway).

Written by

Eileen Atkins, Virginia Woolf

Directed by

Marleen Gorris

Cast

Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America, United Kingdom, Netherlands

Production Companies

First Look International, Bergen Film

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins & 1 nomination

Trailers
Mrs Dalloway Trailer 1997
Scores
# of Votes
4,558
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA