Overview
- The film opened in cinemas in June 2026 and is billed as the first major screen adaptation of a Virginia Woolf novel in decades.
- Director Tina Gharavi and screenwriter Justine Waddell made sweeping changes to characters’ identities, including a transgender Cyril and racially recast relationships, while keeping the story’s setting in the prewar period.
- Production mixes full historical design with contemporary techniques—handheld camerawork, quick cuts and a pop-inflected score—and was shot in and around Newcastle with scenes at Ryhope Engines Museum.
- Critical response has been mixed, with some reviewers praising the film’s effort to revive a neglected Woolf title and others calling the adaptation muddled and saying key ideas are underexplored.
- The film’s high-profile reworking has renewed attention on Night and Day’s ambivalent suffrage politics and subtle queer moments, and it raises broader questions about how far adaptations may alter a lesser-known classic to engage modern audiences.