Virginia Woolf’s interior epic “Mrs Dalloway” survives — and thrives — following a surprisingly successful transplantation ...

Chuko and Arie Esiri's "Clarissa" is the second Nigerian film to ever play Cannes. With Neon as its global distributor, they ...

"Clarissa," a film from Arie and Chuko Eriri which also stars Ayo Edebiri, David Oyelowo, and many more, breathes new life ...

Arie and Chuko Esiri take a team approach to their filmmaking, and the results with their Nigerian-set adaptation “Clarissa” ...

Commanding performances and a great musical score underpin this seductive drama about regret, memory and young love ...

Okonedo captures that steeliness well, communicating the oppressive nature of the character’s life within the context of ...

Arie and Chuko Esiri discussing adapting Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel 'Mrs. Dalloway' and give it the title of 'Clarissa', her ...

Sophie Okonedo shines in ‘Clarissa,’ Arie and Chuko Esiri’s elegant, incisive Lagos-set reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs.

In Clarissa, a group of friends are sitting for lunch at a vacation home in Abraka, Nigeria when their topic of conversation shifts to politics. One character asks a question that spotlights the ...

The Director’s Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival has become a target of debate in recent years, sometimes viewed ...

Having been born into Nigeria's upper crust, the Esiri brothers map out the subtle snobberies and insulation of a class completely detached from the daily struggles of the megacity surrounding them.

In an interview at Deadline’s Cannes studio, Okonedo said, “This is an incredibly meaningful film for me to have made. I’ve ...