This is a clip from Stephen Daldry’s film The Hours. The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. These are Clarissa Vaughan a New Yorker preparing an award party for her aids-stricken long-time friend and poet, Richard in 2001; Laura Brown, a pregnant 1950s California housewife with a young boy and an unhappy marriage; and Virginia Woolf as herself in 1920s England, who is struggling with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel. This film is beautiful in the sense it asks it’s audience the question, What does it means to be human? It highlights how life as both light and dark within it and opens up the question of what is happiness.
The Hours
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