Virginia Woolf's Night & Day at Filmhaus Spittelberg
- The file
- The practical details Claire checked before this went into the index.
- When
- 14 July 2026 – 22 July 2026
- Where
- Mariahilfer Straße 71-73 (Stiftgasse 8 entrance), 1060 Wien
- Price
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- Period drama
- Feminist
- Literary adaptation
- English-language
- 1910s London
Tina Gharavi grew up in Iran before building her career in the UK and US, and that distance from English tradition becomes the film's strength. She doesn't treat the Edwardian drawing room as a museum piece — she treats it as a cage, and Katharine Hilbery's secret mathematics study as an act of resistance.
Haley Bennett carries the film with a quiet intensity. She's not a romantic heroine waiting to be rescued; she's someone calculating her own escape. Lily Allen, as the suffragette who enters her life, brings the kind of raw energy that costume drama usually smooths away. The two of them together make the film's central relationship feel genuinely dangerous — not because of scandal, but because Katharine is actually thinking for herself.
The cinematography is precise without being cold. Gharavi and her DP frame London's interiors as both beautiful and suffocating — all those high ceilings and silk wallpaper become a kind of visual argument about constraint.
It's running at Filmhaus Spittelberg and Filmcasino through late July. If you've read Woolf and found her difficult, or if you've never read her and aren't sure where to start, this film earns the source material.
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