弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（1882—1941），英国意识流文学的代表性作家之一。《弗勒希——一条狗的传奇》，顾名思义，小说的主角是一条叫弗勒希的狗。但这是一条很有来头的狗，他的主人是英国文学史上的传奇女子，《葡萄牙人十四行诗》作者布朗宁夫人。弗勒希出身后不久，就由米特福德小姐送给了当时的巴雷特小姐即后来的布朗宁夫人，从相互抵触到形影不离，从遭歹徒“绑架”到跟随夫人与布朗宁先生私奔意大利，最后“寿终正寝”。作者以简洁幽默的笔法，借着给狗立传，从侧面描写了英国维多利亚时代著名女诗人伊丽莎白·巴雷特：她的性格，她与诗人布朗宁不平凡的爱情，他俩秘密结婚后私奔，在阳光国度意大利度过的愉快的婚姻生活。同时，作者还以狗的视角，反映了当时的阶级矛盾，作者的女权主义思想等，给这部小品似的作品，增添了令人回味的思想深度。

改编自伍尔芙最受争议的女性意识流小说《海浪》。
A film not for everyone. The film is a sort of decontructivistic art movie.
All texts are voice-overs. Poetic but also alienating.
The actors are not only acting, but also rehearsing, trying on dresses, traveling etc. There was some marxistic-leninistic theorising responsible for that. I doubt if even the director still nows the theory,but it dictated that it should be visible that the actors were acting,so it is their reality that is shown, not a make believe reality.
The music is by an important classical Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. ( Also very en vogue left-wing at that time). It's quit remarkable.
The film was brought out again to celebrate the 25th. birthday of the studio nieuwe gronden. An independent small production company of artistic great importance.
The film is not digitally remasterd and restaurated, but put to DVD straight from the celluloid. And I must say, I was delighted to see a movie with celuloid cracks and sound scratches, like a movie should be. I didn't know I'd mis that, but now I've seen this film: I do!
GOLVEN is based on THE WAVES (1931) by Virgina Woolf. There are six main characters in the film who are continually trying to recapture the sense of harmony which they knew as childeren. Throug their thoughts the intensity of childhood, the optimism of youth an the desilllusion of later years are portrayed. Their perceptions and feelings move back and forth through the narrative live waves.
The presentation of the thoughts of the six characters which cover their development from child to adult is a challenge to confront one's own life.
The central event in the film is the meeting of Bernard, Neville, Rhoda, Jinny, Susan and Louis at a restaurant in London in 1920. They meet for dinner on the eve of Percival's departure for India. In a sense Percival acts as a mirror in which each character sees his own ideal image. He himself remains a mysterious figure. Immediately after this dinner, which evokes harmony and happiness on various levels, they learn that Percival has been killed in a riding accident. His death marks the beginning of the decline of the group and of its individual members.
This is not the film of a book in the normal sense. Its images are inspired by the form of the novel, and it takes us on a voyage of discovery. It moves from elements of the present towards the historical fiction, which is re-experieced in a way which is only possible in film. After the death of Percival it becomes clear that the carefully constructed fiction cannot survive and it collapses. The illusion that life and reality are continuing stories in which events follow each other logically is lost.