Rating of
2.5/4
The Hours review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 06/25/13
One of the best well-casted/written downers this reviewer has ever seen which all boils down to love and relationships. The premise was simple and yet made complicated. It introduces three different women in various timelines. Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is from the 1940's, in 1951 Laura Brown's (Julianne Moore) harrowing story unfolds and in 2001, New Yorker Clarissa Vaughan's (Meryl Streep) experience of taking care of a former lover/friend Richard (Ed Harris), who is a poet and author living with AIDS. It's score brings out more emotion of each frame and camera work was detailed. It's pacing however and back and forth direction was not as pleasant an experience. It's most glaring strength were the three leads, especially Kidman who deservedly won an Academy Award. Screenplay was thought-provoking with lines: "I'm living a life I have no wish to live. How did this happen?" "Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more." and "No-one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life." The Hours is a very emotional and deep drama that may not be for everybody, but worth viewing because of the spectacular performances from almost everybody.
