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Director
Conor McPherson
Credits
Producer: Robert Walpole. Wriers: Conor McPherson, Billy Roche
Principal Cast
Ciarán Hinds, Aidan Quinn, Iben Hjejle, Jim Norton
Category
Feature
Playwright Conor McPherson author s again drawn to the supernatural in this tightly-crafted picture of loss and haunting. At the centre of affairs is Michael (Ciarán Hinds), a widower with two children and a dying father-in-law (Jim Norton), and a volunteer at the local literary festival. It is here he meets Lena (Iben Hjejle), a gothic novelist, and the predatory Nicholas (Aidan Quinn), the bad-tempered best-selling author who is determined to bed her. The awkward love-triangle that emerges between Michael and the two novelists, however, is interrupted by the dead and dying, with spectral presences continually stalking Michael. McPherson is joined as co-writer by celebrated playwright, Billy Roche, to develop a mature and enigmatic story of love.
Awards:
88 minutes, Ireland, 2009, Colour
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A REAL PAIN 16:40, 20:50
BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY 12:00, 18:40
HARD TRUTHS 13:00 (OC), 18:10
MARIA 14:10
PRESENCE 17:15
THE BRUTALIST (70MM) 13:15, 19:10
WILD STRAWBERRIES: BLITZ 11.00
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