Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway
  • Release date: 20 Feb 1998
  • Release year: 1997
  • Runtime: 97 minutes
  • Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States
  • Keywords: surname in title, ptsd post traumatic stress disorder, female director, female filmmaker, 1920s, british literature on screen, party, flowers, suicide, england
Plot:
London 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party that evening. While the maid is preparing the house, Mrs. Dalloway is going to buy the flowers. On her walk through London, England, she thinks about her youth when she and her friend Sally lived with their parents in Bourton, England. There she had a friend, Peter Walsh, who wanted to marry her. Although she loved him, she decided not to marry him, but to marry Richard Dalloway. Peter Walsh came back the day before out of India, and later that day, he calls at her house to talk with her. They still feel a lot for one another, and the rest of that day, they think of the time in Bourton. We also follow Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran of World War I. This war gave him a very traumatic experience which leads him to kill himself. Then the party starts, and she doesn't like it, until the party seems to turn right after all.
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