The overlooked Virginia Woolf novel about to hit cinemas – Night and Day

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review: Stargazing and the patriarchy clash in (almost) magical rom-dram

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Virginia Woolf’s most overlooked novel is getting a second chance

Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day, published in 1919, is often seen as an anomaly

Virginia Woolf's Night and Day review: A decent ensemble cast carries this staid adaptation

A novel of two worlds becomes a fitfully enjoyable but diffuse film in this Virginia Woolf adaptation. Woolf’s second novel was a transitional work, poised elusively between Victorian literary conventions and the experiments of her later works.Director Tina Gharavi’s take flirts with modern stylings but ultimately pares down Woolf’s tricky doorstop to a somewhat staid heritage comedy drama of female empowerment, with a largely decent ensemble ca…

The overlooked Virginia Woolf novel about to hit cinemas – Night and Day

Virginia Woolf remains one of the most widely read and celebrated writers of the 20th century, with To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway regularly appearing near the top of lists of the greatest novels of all time. Yet not all of her books are so well remembered. Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day, published in 1919, is often seen as an anomaly. Unlike her more famous books, it has a realist, almost Victorian style and a slow, languorous plot. Pe…

Virginia Wolf's Night and Day Review

Tina Gharavi’s Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day takes Virginia Woolf’s 1919 novel and reshapes it into something wonderfully fresh. While it is set firmly in Edwardian London, this adaptation is less interested in being a stiff history lesson and more focused on exploring ideas that still hit home today.  At the centre of the story is Katharine Hilbery (Haley Bennett, impressive), a young woman determined to pursue her passion for astronomy while …

Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day review – a muddled adaptation

As a young astronomer pushes back against the conventions of Edwardian society, Tina Gharavi’s adaptation leaves its most intriguing ideas frustratingly underexplored. One imagines that Virginia Woolf’s name has been inserted into the title of this adaptation of her second novel because it is undeniably her most obscure – not least to distinguish it from the 1946 Cole Porter biopic directed by Michael Curtiz, and of course the 2010 Cruise-Diaz a…