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Director
Philippe Falardeau
Credits
Producers: Susan Mullen, Ruth Coady, Luc Dery, Kim McCraw
Cinematographer:Sara Mishara
Principal Cast
Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Brian F. O'Byrne, Seána Kerslake, Douglas Booth
Category
Feature
New York in the 1990s: after leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent to J.D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-panelled office - where dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze off after three-martini lunches - and her nights in a sink-less Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency's impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalising the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer's voice, begins to discover her own. Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland
TBC, Canada, Ireland, 2020, Colour
28 YEARS LATER 13:00, 15:35, 20:45
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MASS APPEAL (PROGRAMME ONE) 12:50
CAL 13:40
HIDDEN (CACHÉ) 18:10 (French Film Club)
IRISH FOCUS: MAKING DUST 18.30
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND 16:00, 20:40
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME 16:10, 20:30
TORNADO 13:50
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