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Director
Pat O'Connor
Credits
Producer: Kenith Trodd. Writers: Pat O'Connor, William Trevor
Category
FeatureLiterature
This perfectly rendered naturalist feature, adapted from writer William Trevor’s short story The Ballroom of Romance, explores the deadening atmosphere of 1950s Ireland through the figure of the unmarried Bridie (Brenda Fricker). “Spinster” Bridie goes to the country ballroom, where as a young woman she danced and dreamed of a happy marriage, to desperately try one last time to find a husband. Respectable men prove to be thin on the ground and loneliness threatens to drive Bridie into the arms of drunken, foolish Bowser Egan (John Kavanagh). Trevor supplied the script for this adaptation himself, with Pat O’Connor crafting it into a courageous look into the paralysed heart of rural Ireland.
65 minutes, Ireland, 1982, Colour
ANORA 15:30
BIRD 11:10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL – IFI FAMILY: SAUVAGES 11.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AGATHA AND THE LIMITLESS READINGS 14.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BEING MARIA 15.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JIM’S STORY 17.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MARCELLO MIO 19.50
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SCÉNARIOS + EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM ‘SCÉNARIO’ 12.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SOULEYMANE’S STORY 13.00
HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR 13:40, 18:20
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE 16:20, 18:30
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT 20:10
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR 20:40
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