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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.
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.
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?
When Joe and Clarissa return to their apartment in London they find themselves obsessively reiterating the afternoon's events in an attempt to contain and absorb them.
And as Clarissa's support for Joe is withdrawn, we, too, begin to have our misgivings.