Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Nicole Kidman scored an Oscar for her work as bisexual writer Virginia Woolf in this adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and with good reason.The Hours tells the story of two, possibly three queer women living in three different time periods.
In the early 20th century, Virginia Woolf (Kidman), suffering from bipolar disorder and writer’s block, struggles to pen her new novel, Mrs.
Dalloway. In the 1950s, housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) reads a copy of Mrs. Dalloway, her only reprieve from a loveless marriage and boring life.