Clarissa: Book vs. Movie
Arie and Chuko Esiri's 2026 film Clarissa adapts Virginia Woolf's book Mrs Dalloway. Sophie Okonedo plays a woman preparing a party in Lagos, where memories of earlier relationships unsettle her settled life.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- Year
- 1925
- Pages
- 224Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 7 hr 5 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Juliet Stevenson
Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party in London, finding that ordinary errands and unexpected visitors keep returning her to the choices of her youth. Elsewhere in the city, war veteran Septimus Warren Smith struggles with experiences that those treating him fail to understand. Moving through their thoughts over a single day, the book follows private lives beneath the city's public routines.
- Director
- Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 2 hr 15 min
- Cast
- Sophie Okonedo, Ayo Edebiri, David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio
- Genre
- drama
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Clarissa prepares an elaborate party at her home in Lagos, where people once central to her life are about to gather again. The preparations stir memories of youthful attachments and paths she chose not to follow. Elsewhere, a soldier struggles with the aftermath of fighting Boko Haram, his experience unfolding alongside the comforts and doubts of her privileged world.
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