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Synopsis: London, summer 1923. Clarissa, MP Richard Dalloway'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, a young man who survived the battlefields of Europe, is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset form of shell-shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In the course of one day, Peter, 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).
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Marleen Gorris
Production: BMG
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PG-13
Year:
1997
97 min
843 Views


It's tremendously fine. I think this is a great |achievement of the English garden.

"Love in her sunny eyes, | just basking play.

Love walks the pleasant| mazes of her hair. "

"Love does both on her lips, | forever stray...

and saws and reaps | a thousand kisses there."

"N'or all her outfought parts| love's always seen ...

but, oh, he never went within."

Clarissa.

What?

The men leed such |exciting lives ...

but their poor wives |don't seems to do so well.

Marriage is a catastrophe | for women.

But it is inevitable, isn't it?

Sally ...

Will we always be together?

Always! Always!

We'll do everything together. |We'll change the world! Come on.

Oh, Lucy!

Silver does look nice.

The doors are of the hangers in |the dining room, ma'am.

And Rumplemayers's men| will be here soon.

Can I help you with that, ma'am? | No, Lucy.

You've got enough to do.

Star gazing, are we?

Yes.

Come on, Joseph. You know the stars, | you can tell us which is which.

You see that star, | just above the horizon?

Yes. |That's Antares.

Heart of the Scorpio|constellation.

He's name means | "rival of Mars."

And that one?

Ask Libra, we have Alpha. |There goes bright star.

And see how Altair, the | brightest star of equality Eagle...

shines in the east for us today.

Ms. Kilman and I are going out. |Is there anything we can get for you, Mother?

Where are you going, Elisabeth dear?

Ms. Kilman is taking me| to meet the Rev. Whitacker.

Reverend Whitacker. Ah, yes.

Wasn't he the very instrument| in your conversion, Ms. Kilman?

Yes, he helped bring me | to our Lord.

And is today's visit part of | the history lesson?

The reverend Whitacker is also |a historian, Mother.

He can put this true religion | in a proper perspective.

I wonder what that is.

I've never wanted to convert anyone, I hope. | I just want everyone to be themselves.

I've often thought that religious fanaticism | can make a person ...

rather careless.

Mother! We just going to talk to him.

You won't forget about my party |tonight, Elizabeth!

I was going to help Mrs. Kilman | sort the clothes for the mission.

Well, I dare say Ms. Kilman could |spare you for one evening.

I'll see, Mother. We must go, | or we'll be late.

It all seems useless. Going on being in love. |Going on quarreling.

Going on making out. | But Peter, you want so much from me!

You leave me nothing to myself. | You want every little bit of me!

Well, I do! I want us| to be everything to each other.

But that's all so suffocating!

God! God! God!

Peter Walsh!

Clarissa. | Peter!

But you're in India.

No, didn't you get my last letter? | I said I'd be here in June.

No. Your last letter said|that you might be back ...

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Eileen Atkins

Dame Eileen June Atkins, (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. She has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. In 2008, she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Cranford. She is also a three-time Olivier Award winner, winning Best Supporting Performance in 1988 (for Multiple roles) and Best Actress for The Unexpected Man (1999) and Honour (2004). She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1990 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2001. Atkins joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1957 and made her Broadway debut in the 1966 production of The Killing of Sister George, for which she received the first of four Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Play in 1967. She received subsequent nominations for, Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1972), Indiscretions (1995) and The Retreat from Moscow (2004). Other stage credits include The Tempest (Old Vic 1962), Exit the King (Edinburgh Festival and Royal Court 1963), The Promise (New York 1967), The Night of the Tribades (New York 1977), Medea (Young Vic 1985), A Delicate Balance (Haymarket, West End 1997) and Doubt (New York 2006). Atkins co-created the television dramas Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–75) and The House of Elliot (1991–93) with Jean Marsh. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film Mrs Dalloway. Her film appearances include Equus (1977), The Dresser (1983), Let Him Have It (1991), Wolf (1994), Jack and Sarah (1995), Gosford Park (2001), Evening (2005), Last Chance Harvey (2008), Robin Hood (2010) and Magic in the Moonlight (2014). more…

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