I never understood why such an incredibly brilliant actress like dame Eileen Atkins took this very small part on a US film; she’s one of my favourites British actresses and she’s always been on UK productions. Ever since I watched this film which I fancy a lot, it always stroke me as odd watching Eileen Atkins playing this role
Being in this constant state of depression really indulges you to fully commit to the idea of you leaving at any moment. It's not about Leonard, it's not even about death anymore. It's about continuing to live as the visionary, with so many things to notice, to feel to the core of your heart and yet continue to withstand. This scene is hers, this is her way of saying this is my destiny because those who notice and read between the lines are so misunderstood they live life feeling alone till the very end. And it's not until we die that people realize just a glimpse of what was going on in our heads. It only makes sense that if we live this life with so much alone time, our life will finally amount to something to someone else. Collateral damage.
Stunning ,gorgeous movie ,awesome ,beautiful made,by acting of actors ,professional ,about a book of Virginia Woolf , Mrs Dalloway start her life's ,which is get meeting three woman's from different times ,about family trauma childhood cause by parents separate and how past this thru lives each other !!! I recomand this movie ,is absolutely perfect !
@@leocadieux6781 i'll not get technical, but its a chick screaming...obviously people love it, i don't. Give me a choir/orchestra anyday and 10 times on Sunday.
Absolute masterclass of just letting the actors play the subtext and nuance of the scene with the most finite direction. They're both playing a passive aggressive war but they're shared memories are so precious they can't quite give each other up. They really bring out the inner monologues from Cunningham's book; i remember Louis thinking something like Clarissa and Sally's apartment looks like a set decorator has come in and designed it so we get a sense of 'who these people are' and him scoffing that Clarissa doesn't just get him a glass of water she gets out a chilled mineral water and adds lemon garnish. Jeff Daniels plays those moments so low key funny. Meryl has this magnificent facial response to Louis saying 'she kills herself for no reason' as if to reply it's obvious you don't understand women. In the book there's a beautiful line thar describes Clarissa as someone who doesn't cry a lot but often wants to. I really miss seeing Meryl Streep work on this level.
Notice that Jeff Daniels plays gay, indubitably, but not at all swish. Extreme subtlety of gesture and inflection and facial expression. And nothing about it at all condescending. He just IS his particular character.
This is an interesting scene. People who take their lives either see it as a gift or a rebellion. She's so clouded with the romanticisation of her own death that she thinks it's a gift. But often, people around them end up suffering more and carrying the trauma for the rest of their lives. At one point, she pushes her help beyond her limits and as a result she panics that her help would take her life. But then she realises it is not just suffering but along with it the ideation of one's own ending that does it. Thus "the poet and the visionary " dies in a rather dramatic way as if they insisted on creating art even in their final act.
This scene and the next scene where a poem is recited by Virginia about a woman's whole life in a day; simultaneously with a piano score, "Metamorphosis 2" by Phillip glass is just absolutely hauntingly mesmerizing and beautiful. Clarissa carries flowers in her arms walking through a very dark, gray and busy street... you can almost feel what she is feeling.
@@ultraviolettas did you find it ? Such a wonderful feeling of finding something you looking for after all these years .. hope you found it and framed it .
