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Director
Stephen Brown
Credits
Producer: David Collins, Michael Robinson, Luc Roeg. Writer: John Banville
Principal Cast
Ciarán Hinds, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Ruth Bradley, Bonnie Wright
Category
FeatureLiterature
Art historian Max Morden seeks solace in a quiet seaside resort where he spent summers as a child. Taking up residence in a once familiar boarding house, prone to increasingly heavy drinking and avoiding working on a book he claims to be writing, Max revisits incidents from his past, specifically, the recent death of his wife from cancer and the summer of 1955, when he ingratiated himself with the Grace family, a middleclass, bohemian clan who welcomed him into their world. Max struggles to find peace while dealing with these traumatic reflections. A meditation on memory, grief and love, Stephen Brown’s directorial debut is a classy adaptation of John Banville’s Booker Prize-winning novel, for which Banville himself provides the script. Ciarán Hinds is reliably excellent at the centre of the film, and he’s supported by a distinguished cast which includes Natascha McElhone, Charlotte Rampling, Rufus Sewell and Sinéad Cusack.
86 minutes, Ireland, 2013, Colour
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: TASTE OF CHERRY 18.00
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:10, 18:30
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (DOUBLE BILL) 12.50
BALTIMORE 16:20
IFI & ONE DUBLIN ONE BOOK: EDUCATING RITA 15.30
IFI TALKS: KIAROSTAMI PANEL DISCUSSION 14.00
IO CAPITANO 13:40
JEANNE DU BARRY 15:40, 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 11:00, 20:40
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 11:00, 20:20
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 20:50
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