STARS IN HER EYES

Written for the screen by Justine Waddell, Virginia Woolf's Night & Day looks to the stars in the company of a spirited and self-taught early 20th-century astronomer, who repeatedly clashes with an academic fraternity that dissuades women from challenging the status quo.

- Damon Smith

Katharine Hilbery (Haley Bennett), the only child of wealthy parents (Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall) is determined to further her scholarly ambitions at the University of Cambridge but ‘‘nobody wants a woman in science’’.