The Hours Review: An Ambitious Movie-Adapted Opera With Sweeping Emotions Across Time

Dec 14 2022 by /Film

 

"Someone will die at the end of the day." A fictionalized Virginia Woolf (Joyce DiDonato) announces this as she sullenly stares at a dead bird. She's referring to the plot development of her 1925 novel, "Mrs. Dalloway," and she hasn't decided who will die yet in her novel, which would be considered a modernist masterpiece long after her 1941 suicide. She's also echoing her own suicidal dread. She also doesn't know that she's portending another woman's ending.

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