Ayo Edebiri and David Oyelowo also co-star in Arie and Chuko Esiri's gorgeous second feature, which breathes new life into Virginia Woolf's novel and, in the eponymous "perfect hostess," gives British-Nigerian actress Okonedo a role deserving of her.
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Courtesy of Neon, Cannes Film Festival Virginia Woolf’s interior epic “Mrs Dalloway” survives — and thrives — following a surprisingly successful transplantation from London to Lagos in brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri‘s vivid and velvety “Clarissa,” which places a superb Sophie Okonedo, radiant with melancholy, at the heart of its remarkably well-cast ensemble. Expanding in ambition and feeling from their promising debut “This is My Desire” (aka “Eyimofe”), the Esiris cast a perceptive eye over the elite social constellation that has fallen into orbit around this dutiful but unfulfilled society wife, and have nothing but compassion for her as she spins slowly around and around at its center: loved by some, resented by others, admired by all — and totally alone.
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