A Film Review: The Hours

“The Hours” is a drama film, from 2002. It was directed by Stephen Daldry and was based on Michael Cunningham’s book, of the same title. Starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep, the movie shows how the novel “Mrs. Dalloway”, written by Virginia Woolf, affects three women from different generations and ends up interconnecting all of them.
Virginia Woolf, played by Nicole Kidman, lives in 1920s England and is trying to recover from depression, while writing “Mrs. Dalloway”. The book talks about a woman – Clarissa Dalloway – who is preparating for a party (post-World War I) of which she is to be hostess. About 30 decades later, in 1951, Laura Brown (Julianne Moore), a troubled pregnant housewife who lives in Los Angeles, reads the book as a way of escaping from her own reality. Laura is also planning to do a party, but for her husband in that day. Later on, in 2001, New Yorker Clarissa Vaughan – who has the same name of Woolf’s main character - shows up as a book editor. Like the ones before, she spends the day preparing for a party she is hosting in honor of her lover Richard (Ed Harris), a poet and author living with AIDS who is to receive an award. The movie itself represents both a homage to Woolf and very much its own creature.
The amazing plot, mixed up with the fantastic work that the cast made with the director; would be enough to consider “The Hours” one of the best movies of all times. But there are also other great aspects of this film, in which the soundtrack, composed by Philip Glass, must be included.
“The Hours” was nominated for several awards, including the Silver Berlin Bear, Golden Globe, Grammy, Oscar – in which Nicole Kidman won, as “ the Best Actress in a Leading Role” and many others.
It's definetely well worth seeing this beautiful film, with great cast and plot. "One of the best movies of all time", as I just said. "The Hours" will keep you glued to screen from the first scene until the last one - and I guarantee that you'll find yourself thinking about everything you've just seen for a long time.

Clarissa Vaughn: You don't have to go to the party, you don't have to go to the ceremony, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. You can do as you like.
Richard Brown: But I still have to face the hours, don't I? I mean, the hours after the party, and the hours after that...