It’s not strictly necessary to know anything about Henrik Ibsen when you watch “Hedda” – the festival-acclaimed ... Arguably his most renowned play, “Hedda Gabler” provides the basis for DaCosta’s movie.
“I am just a woman,” cries Eileen Lovborg (Nina Hoss) in Nia DaCosta’s bold adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play, “Hedda Gabler.” ... While Hedda seeks out pleasure in the chaos she invokes, it’s clear that none of this fulfills her.
In Nia DaCosta’s elegantly searing drama “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson makes a classic role entirely her own. As in Henrik Ibsen’s play “Hedda Gabler,” this Hedda is an unhappy, complicated woman who has entered into a marriage with a man she ... .