Slideshow
THE HOURS
Thursday, February 27
6:00
Friday, February 28
12:30
Adapted in part from the 1998 New Yorker story “A Room at the Normandy,” by Michael Cunningham.
U.S., 2002
Directed by Stephen Daldry
With Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, John C. Reilly, Toni Collette
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Actress, 2003
Approx. 114 min. 35mm.
“Cuts back and forth among three locations and four time periods: Los Angeles in 1951, where a housewife (Julianne Moore) under the strain of depression is planning suicide; New York in the present, where a literary editor (Meryl Streep) hopes to give a party for a poet friend (Ed Harris) who is dying of AIDS; and England, where Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) composes one of her masterpieces, Mrs. Dalloway, in 1923… The twin themes of THE HOURS are the variety of human bonds, especially the bond of love, and the gift that the dying make to the living. The miracle is that such sombre notions fit together as surely and lightly as the dancers in a Balanchine ballet.” – David Denby, The New Yorker
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Three earnest, meticulous performances.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian