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In the last half-hour of Marleen Gorris' film of Mrs. Dalloway , Woolf's rhapsodic prose and Redgrave's radiant countenance combine for some of the most transcendentally beautiful cinema I have ever seen.
Having first transformed yourself (Rule 1) into "a creature unlike any other"--radiant, confident, fashionable, mysterious, elusive, quiet, and, if necessary, nose-jobbed--don't talk to a man first (2) or too much (3), don't go Dutch (4) or sleep with him on the first date (14), don't call him and rarely return his calls (5), always end phone calls (6) and dates (11) first, and never accept a Saturday night date after Wednesday (7).
But either way, once you get past the sci-fi extravaganzas, Toward the End of Time tells a story exactly like that in any number of Updike's novels--of a man unhappy in marriage, blue with remorse, and unable to figure out what to do, except by attending closely to the radiant surface of the visible reality in front of him.
The marriage seemed, to the outside world,And probably was, radiant and triumphant,And I think that one could almost certainly sayThat during the last, heroic, phase of things,After his death, and after the stroke, she hadBy force of character and careful management,Maintained a certain degree of happiness.
That "modern" note is largely absent from Parker's adaptation, in which Gertrude is the soulful center and Blanchett's performance is radiant in its forthrightness.