Newsweek, March 2nd, 1998
In a movie universe clanking with special effects, Mrs. Dalloway dares to luxuriate in art's greatest special effect: language, it's something of a miracle to succeed in adapting Virginia Woolf s landmark (and eternally popular) 1925 novel, written almost entirely in its characters' stream of consciousness. But it's been pulled off by a gifted and gutsy team headed by a noted writer-actor, Eileen Atkins; a supersensitive director, the Dutch-born Marleen Gorris (whose "Antonia's Line" won the 1995 Oscar for best foreign-language film), and a supreme actress, Vanessa Redgrave. They have made a...
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