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	The Hours (film) Essays
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		Film analysis of the movie 'The Hours' with a focus on how genders are viewed throughout the movie.
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	The Hours (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hours is a 2002 Academy Award winning film drama about three women of different generations and times whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs.
		The film's sceenplay was written by David Hare, based on the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award winning 1998 novel, The Hours, by Michael Cunningham.
		Kidman's portrayal in the film, in which she wore a prosthetic nose, highlighted the Hollywood rumor that beautiful actresses can only receive the best dramatic roles once they diminish their physical attributes in a role, another example being Charlize Theron's Oscar in 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hours_(film) (697 words)

	DVD.net : The Hours - DVD Review
		Given the length of the film and the rather high bitrate, a layer change is in place somewhere during the feature, but it is so perfectly placed that it is able to skim through unnoticed.
		As a trailer for a film, this is a very strange concoction with an overall mixed tone to the feel of the film.
		This tug-of-war with the audience’s emotions about the film is a little confusing and odd, however it still is a truly remarkable trailer showcasing the film’s star-studded cast and ultimately is a superb advertising ploy.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3228 (1926 words)

	Political Film Society - The Hours
		The reliance of their partners on flowers as a way to brighten the physical environments of the three depressed characters demonstrates how little most people know about how to live with someone whose depression is based in part on a sense of failure in living up to expectations, both those of others and of oneself.
		The most profound quote in the film, Clarissa's statement that people "stay alive for each other," a restatement of the actuarial fact that couples live longer than single persons, is questioned by all three cases, in which the psychological burden of togetherness is excessive.
		Dalloway--the title of a 1925 feminist novel by Virginia Woolf, which in turn inspires Laura to take the unusual action of abandoning her family, and in turn is rewritten by Richard to describe the life of Clarissa in his mythical novel.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/thehours.html (575 words)

	The Hours The film with Nicole Kidman
		The Hours takes place in three different periods, each of them evolving one central female character who is closely related to a piece of English literature, Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs.
		Film is a different medium than a novel, therefore, Stephen Daldry has to condense time, which, luckily, is also a trademark of Virginia Woolf's and Michael Cunningham's writing in which the past can come to life in a moment of the present.
		Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo34/the_hours_nicole_kidman.htm (829 words)

	AfterEllen.com - The Question of The Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Director Stephen Daldry maintains that one of his motivations for making the film was to highlight the everyday heroism of women, since "often the heroics in women’s lives are underestimated, or put into the background by the heroics in the lives of men.
		The high-profile actresses attached to the film and the sheer force of the Oscar momentum will likely attract audiences to the movie who might otherwise skip such a film, which means The Hours is likely to give these issues broader exposure than a million well-reviewed-but-little-seen indie films.
		Yes, of course it is, but....in the context of so few mainstream films with lesbian or bisexual characters, The Hours may raise everyone's consciousness and still leave the average viewer with the strong impression that homosexuality and bisexuality lead to depression, suicide, and constant struggle.
	www.afterellen.com /Movies/thehours.html (927 words)

	CLUAS \| Film Reviews \| The Hours
		David Hare had a difficult task adapting the novel “The Hours” which is complex and layered but rather than use voice over to express the characters’ thoughts or labour the movie with lengthy monologues he instead relies on the skill of the actors in expressing their inner turmoil.
		The movement between the stories is initially a little sharp with shots cutting mid scene but it soon becomes fluid and it is through the more lengthy vignettes taken from each woman’s day that the story unfolds and their acting talents are displayed.
		The film highlights that despite the different eras, this struggle is timeless.
	www.cluas.com /cinema/hours.htm (600 words)

	Rod Dreher on The Hours on National Review Online
		Now that I've seen The Hours, though, I know that if she were to decide one day, out of nowhere, to walk out on the boy and me … well, life is like that.
		The objectionable thing is the film's view that Laura owed nothing to her husband and children, not even an explanation, and that her pursuit of happiness should trump everything else — and that this should be obvious to any fair-minded viewer.
		In the film, Woolf is living and working in the leafy London suburb of Richmond, where her devoted husband Leonard (Stephen Dillane) has taken her in hopes that the quiet of the countryside will ease her suicidal depression.
	www.nationalreview.com /dreher/dreher012403.asp (1736 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Hours
		Later in the film, Richard (Ed Harris), a gaunt, haggard, disease-ravaged poet defenestrates himself before the eyes of his best friend and former lover, the achingly frustrated Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep), who loves this man for reasons she can't fully understand, and whose life is pathetically fueled tending to his decrepit existence.
		The film conveniently sanitizes the hideous consequences of these choices, by exhorting us to admire women who achieve a self-awareness that is constructed from the wreckage of others' emotions, and an obsequious servitude to their own impulses.
		The similitude of trivialities throughout the film only underscores the sameness of the weightier issues the women face — all are adrift with a general ennui, their days fraught with anxiety at not being understood, and their hours filled with unhappiness at the status quo.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /39/hours.htm (2128 words)

	The Hours (2002)
		My dislike for this film has nothing to do with the fact that I'm not a woman; even if I were, I would still be rolling my eyes at the absurdity of placing characters on a pedestal merely for being women and for no other reason whatsoever.
		I wouldn't have a problem with the film had it been made in the 1950's, but those days are long over and the idea of anyone dwelling over the same old complaints and double standards is more irritating than insightful.
		The one exception to this dullness is Claire Danes as the daughter of Streep's character; the second she enters the film it seems to light up with authenticity and life, providing a ray of hope in an otherwise pointless movie.
	www.moovees.com /review/hours.html (605 words)

	The Hours - Film Reviews - 2100 Productions - InterVarsity.org
		No, the most annoying films are the "might-have-been" films: films that are fairly dripping with promise, loaded with talent, with a speckless literary pedigree.
		Films with complex structures, big themes and large casts can still manage to be light on their feet in the right hands (the films of Robert Altman and Paul Thomas Anderson come to mind).
		Also recommended is this year's Far From Heaven, another film about a woman trapped in a rigidly-defined gender role who later tries to rebel against her society and is made to suffer the consequences.
	www.intervarsity.org /2100/filmreviews.php?id=2748 (1495 words)

	Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? \| Salon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cunningham's book and Daldry's film are musical in the sense that each is essentially an exercise in counterpoint, a theme and variations based on Woolf's novel "Mrs.
		Daldry's "The Hours" begins and ends with the same startling scene, which occurs on a fourth day, separated in space and time from the other three: Woolf's suicide in 1941, which she accomplished by wading into a river with stones in her coat pockets.
		In its first few scenes, "The Hours" establishes that this trans-historical mosaic is to be its method.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2002/12/27/hours/index_np.html (1085 words)

	The Hours
		Clarissa’s openly gay lifestyle aside there is, of course, Woolf’s own documented bi-sexuality to contend with—there’s a moment in the film in which the author locks lips with her sister (played by Miranda Richardson) a little too persuasively.
		Laura contemplates it, Clarissa witnesses it and, in the film’s prologue set in 1941, a cognitive Woolf wades into a Sussex river, her pockets stuffed with rocks, and drowns herself.
		Perhaps it’s telling that the film’s most impressive set piece, visually speaking, is a dream sequence and that its most emotionally effective scene (when Leonard confronts Virginia at the train station) was changed from the original novel.
	members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/hours.htm (680 words)

	The Hours (2002)
		The film shifts back and forth among the three women as each embarks upon a day that will not so much change her life as bring it into sharp focus.
		The film is highly formal, in film terms, but it is not any more constructed than Far From Heaven or Punch Drunk Love or even Triple XXX.
		When Time magazine describes the film as pretentious, the years seem to shift back to an earlier day when phrases like "intellectual" and "cultural elite" were used as clubs.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/TheHours/TheHours.html (1236 words)

	The Hours (2002)
		The film opens with the suicide of one of its main characters, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman), who composes a farewell note to her husband and then proceeds to drown herself in a nearby river in 1941.
		The Hours is presented in an anamorphically enhanced widescreen presentation in the film’s theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
		Using interview snippets, clips from the film, and clips from behind the scenes, we learn a good bit about the casting and rehearsal process, why the actresses were chosen, and how the individual actresses viewed their parts.
	www.dvdmg.com /hours.shtml (2150 words)

	The Hours Review (DVD Movie/Film)
		Although the synopsis of 'The Hours' is not particularly enticing, Daldry has been able to avoid making a film about depression that is within itself depressing, by having the opportunity to draw from quality throughout the length and breadth of his movie.
		She puts in a mesmerising performance as a woman who is equally fascinated and terrified by the prospect of life and death, a combination which has the force to cause her to lose grasp of her own sanity and which leads, irrevocably, to death.
		It is the pairing of Nicole Kidman and Stephen Dillane that is the cornerstone of 'The Hours'.
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /review.asp?ID=5 (1025 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Hours
		The Hours is a different kind of rant, a preposterous faux-feminist manifesto that blames the woes of the modern day female on her historical disconnectedness.
		Dalloway and while she remains uncertain as to why her heroine must die, she is suddenly enlightened as if merely to provide the spectator with a point of connectivity between the film's three suicidal heroines.
		The Hours goes one step further, arrogantly suggesting that Clarissa has no reason to suffer because Woolf died for her right to kiss a woman and have a test-tube baby.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=520 (663 words)

	USATODAY.com - Haunting 'Hours' is no idle whiling away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Hours is one of the more compelling ways to pass the time during these colder months.
		The film is a powerful adaptation of a complex work of fiction.
		This segment is the main flaw in an otherwise impressive film.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2002-12-26-the-hours_x.htm (612 words)

	The Hours : film review
		The Hours is the latest 'difficult' book to be adapted into a film.
		It is however a starkly beautiful film, boasting performances that have 'Oscar' written all over them, and while it's not an easy film to enjoy, it's certainly one to admire.
		The Hours is not a feel good Hollywood blockbuster by any means.
	www.musicomh.com /films/hours.htm (494 words)

	Film Quips \| THE HOURS
		First there is the story set in 1923 of the famously troubled bisexual authoress herself, Virginia Woolf (Kidman, sporting a prosthetic nose and an uncharacteristically plain wardrobe), beginning to write the novel while battling the depression and emotional instability that eventually drove her to commit suicide nearly 20 years later.
		Of course the film’s immersive scenic quality (cinematography by Seamus McGarvey) is another essential element, particularly in the 1920s section, where the beauty of the pastoral English countryside makes Kidman’s part all the more challenging, forcing her to convey to us the desperation she feels in this doctor-ordered prison paradise.
		The Hours is a richly valuable opportunity to see immense talent at work, on both sides of the camera.
	www.filmquipsonline.com /hours.html (648 words)

	The Hours
		The Hours are referred to by Ed Harris as the time between his limited activities which pass very slowly.
		The film suffers from slow periods from director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) but the gifted script punches it back up particularly as each life is resolved.
		Julianne Moore appears stuck in the 50ies this year as her Far From Heaven and The Hours place her in the second half century decade.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/hours.html (514 words)

	Clarissa Explains It All : The Hours - Thursday, 01/16/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Thanks to Spike Jonze's acclaimed new film, the mysterious process of adaptation is on the minds of moviegoers at the beginning of 2003.
		Moore, in her second troubled-1950s housewife role of the year (the other is, of course, in Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven), an unrecognizable Kidman as Virginia Woolf, and Harris could garner Oscar nods, as well.
		Hours, days after the closing credits have rolled, the viewer may remember a shoe slipping off Virginia Woolf's foot in the River Ouse, a botched birthday cake on a kitchen table, a bouquet of peonies, lilies and roses in Clarissa's arms, a poet sitting in the open window of his squalid apartment.
	www.nashvillerage.com /movies/archives/03/01/27698118.shtml (527 words)

	The Hours is a depressive closet case. By David Edelstein
		The Hours (Paramount) was the longest pair of 'em I spent at the movies all year.
		I am aware that for some people this homage to Virginia Woolf is a profoundly moving experience, but I found the film, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare, excruciatingly flat-footed, with one of the most exasperating scores (by Philip Glass) ever written.
		Clarissa Dalloway can endure, despite her flashes of loneliness, because she can cling to the present moment and its "ordinary pleasures," whereas Woolf (played in the film by Nicole Kidman and said nose), the visionary artist, is doomed to the voices in her head and a couple of surly domestics.
	www.slate.com /id/2076194 (1028 words)

	The Hours
		The only thing that separates The Hours from garbage like A Beautiful Mind (last year's odds-on favourite to disappoint people who care while pleasing people who don't really give a damn and don't remember the morning after anyway) is that its marquee disability is being a woman and, apparently, being a lesbian.
		The film is about escape from societal restrictions, Blake's "mind-forged manacles" perhaps, and perhaps again of the women's own devising.
		(The Hours appears to want its anti-patriarchal and anti-matriarchal cakes and to eat them both.) Her firstborn son, also named Richard, is extremely sensitive to his mother's plight and will, in time, probably write his own morbid, autobiographical novel-length allegory and take flight in imitation of Woolf's doomed bird.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/hours.htm (587 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Film: The Hours has moments so real it hur...
		Woolf infamously committed suicide in 1941 after years of struggling with mental illness, while Moore's Laura Brown is having her own struggles with depression in 1951, and Meryl Streep's Clarissa Vaughn is preparing a party (as Mrs.
		The craftsmanship employed by editor Peter Boyle on The Hours is a minor miracle.
		As far as these three women are concerned, the film doesn't offer the most optimistic of answers.
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2003/MERC-Jan-16-Thu-2003/20465727.html (644 words)

	The Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Hours, and Stephen Daldry, in his evocative film based on Cunningham's novel, interweave three stories--that of Woolf herself (Nicole Kidman) as she was writing Mrs.
		Woolf, living in the country with Leonard (Stephen Dillane), is presented as introspective, depressive, and difficult for her husband, whose patience with her and fears for her safety seem to have exactly the opposite effects of what he intends.
		For all the pervasive tone of sadness in The Hours, it is an uplifting film.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies6/Hours.htm (927 words)

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