'Virginia Woolf's Night & Day' Review: Film Adaptation Takes Conventional Approach to Complex Novel
By
Guy Lodge
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Summary
A review of Tina Gharavi's film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 1919 novel "Night and Day," which reframes the complex, quasi-Shakespearean story about women's suffrage and courtship into an inspirational feminist drama. The film stars Haley Bennett and Lily Allen, and marks the first attempt to adapt this underexposed Woolf novel, though the review suggests the adaptation takes a more conventional approach than the source material's modernist style.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledVirginia Woolf herself was not the greatest admirer of her 1919 novel 'Night and Day'
It remains perhaps the most underexposed of her books
it's taken until now for anyone to attempt an adaptation
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