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We begin our 10th anniversary celebration of The Hours, in the only logical place: morning rituals
Good morning ladies: Laura would like to sleep in, Virginia never sleeps, Clarissa sleeps fitfully
A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day, her whole life.
-Virginia Woolf, The Hours
The central framing ambition of The Hours, is vocalized about 17 minutes in after the genius author Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) has written the first and soon to be rather famous sentence to (one of) her masterpiece(s) "Mrs. Dalloway." I'd liken it to that moment when the tea kettle starts whistling except that nobody is having tea. But, nevertheless the movie's three strands (1923, 1951, and 2001) have been simmering with, bubbling over and spilling into one another in Stephen Daldry's pot and we're definitely full steam. But first things first... what are our ladies having for breakfast?
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