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Clarissa: Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Classic Mrs Dalloway Comes to Nigeria
Filmmaking twins Chuko and Arie Esiri open up on their striking new take on a literary classic, a standout at this year’s Cannes Film Festival
BREAKINGBreaking Baz @ Cannes: How The Filmmaking Esiri Brothers & Sophie Okonedo Put ‘Clarissa’ In The Spotlight
When twin brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri decided to adapt Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway and give it the title of Clarissa, her Christian name, they say they were “freeing her” from being someone’s property, someone’s wife. It’s as if the character …