A reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway set in Lagos, Nigeria, this lyrical sophomore effort from directors Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri is an exquisite portrait of a woman at a crossroads. While planning a posh dinner party for her husband’s colleagues, Clarissa (an extraordinary Sophie Okonedo, Ratched) realizes she’s far from the woman she’d hoped to become. Haunted by paths not taken, Clarissa is pulled back into the orbit of now-distant friends from her youth — the devoted Peter (David Oyelowo, Selma) and the spirited Sally (Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rumours).

Also featuring India Amarteifio (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story), Toheeb Jimoh (Ted Lasso), and Ayo Edebiri (Bottoms, The Bear), this bold adaptation ebbs and flows between past and present, between perspectives and places. What emerges is as much a meditation on desire and regret as it is an intricately layered examination of colonialism, class, and privilege in contemporary Nigeria. Gorgeously shot on 35mm and anchored by Okonedo’s singular ability to convey an entire life in a single frame, Clarissa renews its source material.