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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
A QUIET LOVE 18.00
HAMNET 15.30
IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY 13.10, 20.40
JEAN-LUC GODARD: ALPHAVILLE 18.20
MY FATHER’S SHADOW 13.00
NO OTHER CHOICE 13.00
SENTIMENTAL VALUE 15.20
THE BIGGER PICTURE: BEFORE SUNRISE 20.30
THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE 15.45, 18.10 (OC)
THE SECRET AGENT 20.10
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