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Director
Mary McGuckian
Credits
Producers: Mary McGuckian, Anna J. Devlin. Writers: William Butler Yeats, Mary McGuckian
Principal Cast
Jim Sheridan, Orla Brady, Bríd Brennan, Geraldine James, Geraldine Chaplin
Category
FeatureLiterature
Mary McGuckian’s atmospheric period piece is an adaptation of a one-act play by W.B. Yeats in which he explored the occult, a subject in which he had a life-long interest. Set during a series of séances hosted by the Dublin Spiritualist Society in 1928, the spirits of Jonathan Swift (Jim Sheridan) and the two women who loved him too passionately - Stella (Bríd Brennan) and Vanessa (Orla Brady) - act out the torment of their tragic triangle through the mediums of Miss Henderson (Geraldine James) and Mrs McKenna (Geraldine Chaplin).
Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn.
98 minutes, Ireland, 1994, Colour
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HOT MILK 20:50
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THE BIGGER PICTURE: THE ROARING TWENTIES 18.20
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME 13:45
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