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We move with her, back before the war, as the young Clarissa (Natascha McElhone) lazes elegantly on a vast estate, romping with her saucy (and politically progressive) friend Sally Seton (Lena Headey) and putting up with Peter Walsh (Alan Cox), a misanthropic but palpably smitten suitor.
Before long, the apartment is awash in Parry's letters and Clarissa has moved into the spare bedroom.
The very title of the work is tinged with regret, since its protagonist is presented to us not as lighthearted Clarissa but as the older Dalloway's somewhat shrinking, sickly missus.
Why doesn't Clarissa ever see Parry, if he is stalking Joe daily, and why did Joe erase all Parry's messages on the answering machine, instead of saving them as evidence?
(It's odd that Gorris, whose other films are so flagrantly--even homicidally--feminist, should put so much more emphasis on Clarissa's rejection of Peter when Woolf gives equal, if not stronger, weight to her inchoate romantic feelings for the vivacious Sally.)