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James Joyce (novel)
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Release Date:
13 September 1985 (USA) more
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An Erotic Masterpiece.
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In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Fionnula Flanagan ... Harriet Shaw Weaver
Chris O'Neill ... James Joyce
James E. O'Grady ... The Interviewer
Tony Lyons ... Leopold Bloom
Paddy Dawson ... Stannie Joyce
Martin Dempsey ... Joyce's father
Gerald Fitzmahony ... The Dublin Gossips
Joseph Taylor ... Dubliner
Rebecca Wilkinson ... Two Washerwoman
Gladys Sheehan ... Two Washerwomen
Gabrielle Keenan ... Cissy Caffrey
Michele O'Connor ... Edy Boardman
Zoe Blackmore
Terry Flanagan
Brian Dunne
Rosanna Flanagan
Thomas Kitt
Morgan Blackmore
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Timothy E. O'Grady ... The interviewer
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Directed by
Michael Pearce 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
James Joyce  novel

Produced by
Fionnula Flanagan .... producer
Garrett O'Conner .... producer
 
Original Music by
Arthur Keating 
Vincent Kilduff 
 
Cinematography by
John Metcalfe 
 
Film Editing by
Arthur Keating 
Dan Perry 
 
Makeup Department
Rosie Blackmore .... makeup artist
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Des Whelan .... focus puller
 
Music Department
Garrett O'Conner .... composer: harmonica music
Garrett O'Conner .... musician: harmonica
 
Other crew
Laerke Sigfred Pedersen .... script supervisor
 

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88 min
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1 out of 2 people found the following review useful.
Makes you forget there ever was a "Grease.", 8 September 2007
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Author: rkahnauthor from United States

This is a towering performance of and about James Joyce and his works and women. Ms. Flanagan is sexual, as was Joyce and, of course, is life. Her work here reminds us of the depth and height that an artist can realize through film.

She addresses "Portrait of an Artist," "Ulysses" and even the lyric and mysterious "Finnegan's Wake." In counterpoint, she plays Joyce's real-life wife, the former Nora Barnacle -- they married after living together for 27 years We have nice bits by actors portraying such authors as E. Hemingway and F. S. Fitzgerald and poignant matter on the madness of Joyce's only daughter.

This will not make your local multiplex. But seek out the film, tape only, and watch it a few times.You will come away better understanding 20th Century writing, and, indeed, the human condition.

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