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The Hours by Stephen Daldry is based
on Michael Cunningham's homonymous novel. The narrative involves three women whose lives
became intertwined in unexpected ways. Chronologically, the first thread concerns
Virginia Woolf while she is writing Mrs Dalloway. The second
focuses on Laura Brown, an American housewife in the 1950s, whose life is deeply changed
by her reading of Woolf's novel. The third story is set in New York in the 1990s and
follows Clarissa Vaughn's organization of a party for the gay poet Richard, her former
lover and  Laura Brown's son. Woolf's themes such as suicide and trauma as well as
typical recurrent motifs such as flowers, mirrors and kisses are reworked in
The Hours.

The Hours
evokes Woolf and, particularly, Mrs Dalloway, from the
very title which had been chosen originally by Woolf for her own novel. The stories
and the characters in The Hours recall situations and people
in Mrs Dalloway. Both Clarissa Dalloway and Clarissa Vaughn are
getting ready to host a party later in the day. Both Septimus and Richard are poets who
have been through catastrophic events (the First World War and the AIDS epidemic
respectively) and commit suicide at the end. The novel and the film also pay homage to
Woolf's narrative technique by constantly shifting the three narratives and thus the
points of view. In addition, the three stories all take place in one day, just like
Mrs Dalloway (and other Modernist works). in an interview with the
New York Times on January 19th, 2003 Cunningham stated that "the
whole human story is contained in every day of every life more or less the way the
blueprint for an entire organism is present in every strand of its
DNA"