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'Clarissa' Review: Sophie Okonedo in a Sharp Take on 'Mrs. Dalloway'

With its stream-of-consciousness style and fragmented perspectives, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is a beguiling novel with understandably few adaptations. Marleen Gorris tried with her shaky 1997 film starring Vanessa Redgrave as the titular protagonist and Rupert Graves as the tragic Septimus. A film inspired by a book inspired by Woolf (Michael Cunningham’s The Hours) followed, and a handful of stage adaptations came and went. Now, Arie and Chuko Esiri, the twin brothers behind the critically acclaimed drama Eyimofe, attempt their own translation — and how lucky we are for that.

Full credits
Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Directors’ Fortnight)
Distributor: Neon
Cast: Sophie Okonedo, Ayo Edebiri, David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, Toheeb Jimoh, Fortune Nwafor, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Jude Akuwudike, Danny Sapani,
Modesinuola Ogundiwin, Chuks Joseph, Kehinde Cardoso, Jable Osai, Joke Silva
Production companies: Per Capita Productions, Invention Studios
Directors: Ari Esiri, Chuko Esiri
Screenwriter: Chuko Esiri
Producers: Theresa Park, Nicholas Weinstock, Ari Esiri, Chuko Esiri
Executive producers: Sophie Okonedo, Osahon Okunb, Dolly Omodolapo Kola-Balogun, Jason Reif
Director of photography: Jonathan Bloom
Production designer: Hanrui Wang
Costumes: Eniola Dawodu
Editor: Blair McClendon
Music: Kelsey Lu
Casting: Nina Gold
2 hours 7 minutes

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/clarissa-review-sophie-okonedo-ayo-edebiri-david-oyelowo-1236597124/

Noted.

That doesn't erase the current situation in the land.

Ohkkkk. Well noted.. Next please

Them try. When are they producing a film on Tinumbu? There's enough story there.

Tinubu the incompetent should add it as his only achievement.

Abeg Nigerians need more than movies. Wetin dey head pass film. How many adult Nigerians can concentrate for even 30mins watching movie without distractions, either thinking, sleep, nepa, or data? Abeg

Economy is sooooo baaaad

Okay. I may see the movie because of this review then

My account Dey empty Tinubu need to start working harder

12345baba:
Economy is sooooo baaaad

While this movie is making it.

lol, all these people shout "Tulumbu" over the timeline dey always muse me, like what has he got to do with this post?

Could it becos there are a lot of terrible mentions of PO circa 2011/12 on this forum and they think they need to replicate same for PBAT and use it against his govt later?

If that's the case, you lots don't need all that, history writes itself mostly, you don't need to force it

Franking:
Them try. When are they producing a film on Tinumbu? There's enough story there.

May be that will make you busy rather than being a peanut Social Media worker for Obi,

Go and produce the movie, please.

E still no go make sense. You will agree with me later.

I need to watch this movie

bigdammyj:
Noted.

That doesn't erase the current situation in the land.

What in your full existence have you done to erase the current situation in the land? Hypocrisy!

The foreign critics are calling "Clarissa" the best Nigerian film in the 100 years of filmmaking in Nigeria since the first feature film, "Palaver" was shot in 1926 in Toro in Bauchi State.
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Mesmeric' movie on secret lives of Nigeria's rich wows Cannes

Cannes (France) (AFP) – A wonky mosaic in the shape of Nigeria plays a subtly telling role in Arie and Chuko Esiri's Cannes Film Festival break-out hit "Clarissa".

"Arie, the older of the two director brothers, told AFP that shooting with his twin is a kind of superpower, admitting he usually plays the tough guy on set.

"We're twins but we're wired differently. I'm right-handed," said Chuko, "and he's left-handed. He's visual, I'm more narrative."

Two Nigerias
"Clarissa", told in restrained flashback, is as much about post-independence Nigeria as it is about its upper crust, which the brothers say they know only too well, having "been born into it"."

"Critics at Cannes have found the twins' sly post-colonial take on Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs Dalloway" one of the most affecting movies of the year so far.

"How lucky we are" they took it on, wrote the Hollywood Reporter's Lovia Gyarkye, while The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called the movie "seductive" and "mesmeric".

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260518-twins-wow-cannes-with-mesmeric-tale-of-nigeria-s-rich

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Mccullum:
May be that will make you busy rather than being a peanut Social Media worker for Obi,

Go and produce the movie, please.

At least, Obi is better than Tinumbu....no sane clime will allow a character like Tinumbu to be president......you and your likes are the reason Nigeria will never work.

If you were voting for an Oduduwa president, I bet you will NEVER vote for someone like Tinumbu over decent candidates....... Big shame on you.