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BREAKINGBreaking Baz @ Cannes: How The Filmmaking Esiri Brothers & Sophie Okonedo Put ‘Clarissa’ In The Spotlight
When twin brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri decided to adapt Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway and give it the title of Clarissa, her Christian name, they say they were “freeing her” from being someone’s property, someone’s wife. It’s as if the character …
‘Clarissa’ Review: Sophie Okonedo Sparkles In Elegant, Incisive Lagos-Set Reimagining Of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’
Multiple threads unfurl during the first hour of the elegant, incisive drama “Clarissa,” from directors Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri. Past and present are interwoven to introduce an ensemble cast of characters as they are now, who they were decades ago, their r…