Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf's potent novel has been adapted by another great actress and acclaimed Woolf interpreter, Eileen Atkins.

Mrs. Dalloway is about a day's communion between the woman who exists, and the other woman who might have existed instead.

Redgrave, marrying emotion with cool restraint, dominates the screen as the woman whose preparation for a party evokes memories of her youth and doubts about whether she wed the right man.

...the film rests on the shoulders of Redgrave and McElhone, who together create a quietly heartbreaking portrait of a deeply contradictory character...