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Cannes Day Five: The Novel the Novel Always Needed to Be
Season 1
Episode 446
Published 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Film twenty-four of the festival and the Esiri brothers' Clarissa is a genuine revelation. Mrs. Dalloway transplanted to present-day Lagos, shot on 35mm, with Sophie Okonedo, Ayo Edebiri and a Septimus played by Fortune Nwafor that will stay with us long after Cannes ends. We talk about what this adaptation finds that Woolf herself could not, and why this is the film of the festival we did not see coming.