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Brooklyn Ending, Explained
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The beautifully realized Oscar-nominated romantic drama Brooklyn, adapted from Colm Tóibín’s book of the same name, has a moving and thought-provoking ending. Saoirse Ronan stars in the adaptation as Eilis Lacey, a young Irish woman who emigrates to Brooklyn in the 1950s. While caught between two homes, Eilis finds herself in a love triangle with Tony (Emory Cohen), an Italian-American plumber in New York, and Jim (Domhnall Gleeson), a well-off suitor back in her hometown of Enniscorthy. Brooklyn was nominated for three Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Actress (for Ronan), and Best Adapted Screenplay – but sadly, in spite of its universal praise, it didn’t win any.

Named by the BBC as one of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century, Brooklyn is a heartwarming historical tale about what it means to call somewhere home. Ronan was already one of the most acclaimed actors of her generation, but Brooklyn...
See full article at ScreenRant
  • 2/3/2023
  • by Ben Sherlock
  • ScreenRant
Frightfest 2019: ‘A Good Woman is Hard to Find’ Review
Stars: Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson, Jane Brennan, Caolan Byrne, Packy Lee, Rudy Doherty, Macie McCauley, Susan Ateh | Written by Ronan Blaney | Directed by Abner Pastoll

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find is a Northern Irish film about a young Mum who has been recently widowed, and with a willingness to go to any lengths in idea to protect her kids, seeks the reasons behind the murder of her late husband. Written by Ronan Blaney (Love Bite) and directed by Abner Pastoll (Road Games), it’s a crime thriller with a fantastic lead performance from Sarah Bolger (The Moth Diaries).

Bolger, is Sarah, a down-on-her-luck mother who is desperate to find out the information about the death of her husband, while struggling to make ends meet and support her kids, and she’s bloody great. She brings a real emotional depth to the character, seeming emotionally exhausted, frustrated and depressed,...
See full article at Nerdly
  • 8/27/2019
  • by Chris Cummings
  • Nerdly
Sarah Bolger in UK Trailer for 'A Good Woman Is Hard to Find' Thriller
"They're my children. I'm their mother. And I love them." Signature Entertainment has debuted an official UK trailer for the indie crime thriller A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, the latest from filmmaker Abner Pastoll. This first premiered at Fantasia this summer, and is premiering in the UK at FrightFest this month before opening in cinemas this fall. Sarah Bolger stars in this film as a recently widowed young mother who will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband's murder. Also starring Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson, Jane Brennan, Caolan Byrne, Packy Lee, Rudy Doherty, Macie McCauley, and Susan Ateh. Described as a "dynamic killer thriller with its finger firmly on the pulses of stark social commentary and shattering suspense," Pastoll has made a "dazzling, dark and daring journey through Northern Ireland’s criminal ...
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  • 8/20/2019
  • by Alex Billington
  • firstshowing.net
A Good Woman Is Hard To Find Trailer: Sarah Bolger Is a Mother in Danger in Abner Pastoll's Sophomore Thriller
A UK trailer has debuted for Abner Pastoll's A Good Woman Is Hard to Find ahead of its closing night bow at FrightFest Film Festival on August 26. The new Ireland-set thriller sees Sarah Bolger playing a recently widowed young mother who will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband's murder. It was written by Ronan Blaney and co-produced by Frakas (Raw). Following its FrightFest screening, Signature Entertainment will release A Good Woman Is Hard to Find in UK cinemas and on Digital HD October 25, 2019. Besides Bolger, the film also stars Edward Hogg (Taboo), Andrew Simpson (Road Games), Jane Brennan (Brooklyn), Packy Lee (Peaky Blinders), Caolan Byrne (The Foreigner), and Josh Bolt (Nowhere Boy). The film...

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  • 8/19/2019
  • Screen Anarchy
First Trailer for Abner Pastoll's A Good Woman Is Hard To Find Starring Sarah Bolger
Abner Pastoll's follow-up to Road Games sees Sarah Bolger as a recently widowed young mother who will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband's murder. The thriller was written by Ronan Blaney and co-produced by Frakas (Raw).

A Good Woman is Hard to Find will see a UK release by Signature Entertainment in cinemas and on Digital HD October 25, 2019.

The film also stars Edward Hogg (“Taboo”), Andrew Simpson (Road Games), Jane Brennan(“Brooklyn”), Packy Lee (“Peaky Blinders”), Caolan Byrne (“The...
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  • 8/19/2019
  • QuietEarth.us
Metal Heart (2018)
Santa Barbara Film Review: ‘Metal Heart’
Metal Heart (2018)
Two warring teenage twins mix like oil and water — and have the emotional battle scars to show for it — in director Hugh O’Conor’s “Metal Heart.” This coming-of-age film delivers plenty of sweet sentiments about sisterhood, kinship, and honesty to its target market, though the package that surrounds it isn’t as unique as one would hope.

Goth girl Emma (Jordanne Jones) and her bubbly blonde sister Chantal (Leah McNamara) are not identical in any way, shape, or form. Emma is withdrawn, forlorn, and pessimistic, whereas her fraternal twin is pretty, popular, and prissy. However, the two must find common ground when their parents abandon them for the summer. It’s the pair’s last hurrah before they go their separate ways: Emma’s bound for college, and Chantal plans to parlay her blog into a big business. This bonding opportunity would be ideal quality time together if the siblings actually got along,...
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  • 2/10/2019
  • by Courtney Howard
  • Variety Film + TV
Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay in Room (2015)
'Room' sweeps Irish Academy awards
Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay in Room (2015)
Leonardo Dicaprio and Spotlight also pick up prizes from the Irish Film and Television Academy.Scoll down for full list of winners

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room swept the Ifta Awards for Film and Drama at a ceremony in Dublin last night, winning seven trophies.

The film, about a mother and son kept captive in a bunker, won best film, best director, best screenplay, best score and best editing. It also picked up awards for best sound and best international actress for Brie Larson, who won the Oscar for best actress in February.

The award means that Room producer Element Pictures has won six best film awards in the 13 years the Ifta’s have been running.

Liam Neeson was in Dublin to receive the Ifta Outstanding Contribution to Cinema Award – recognition for his celebrated 30 year career in cinema. Neeson was presented the award by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, with tributes...
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  • 4/11/2016
  • by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
  • ScreenDaily
Brooklyn
The story of a brave, innocent immigrant gets a glorious re-telling. Never fear, for this emotional but unsentimental tale of an Irish lass making big decisions features a breakout performance by Saoirse Ronan, an actress who melts hearts with one flash of her blue eyes... Brooklyn Blu-ray 20th Century Fox 2015 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 111 min. / Street Date March 15, 2016 / 39.99 Starring Saoirse Ronan, Jim Broadbent, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Julie Walters, Brid Brennan, Maeve McGrath, Emma Lowe, Fiona Glascott, Jane Brennan, Eileen O'Higgins, Peter Campion, Eva Birthistle, Emily Bett Rickards, Eve Macklin, Nora-Jane Noone, Mary O'Driscoll, Jessica Paré. Cinematography Yves Bélanger Film Editor Jake Roberts Original Music Michael Brook Written by Nick Hornby from the novel by Colm Toibin Produced by Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey Directed by John Crowley

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

2015 brought us dynamic films about post-apocalyptic horrors, child molestation in Boston, a sex-change pioneer, and the 2009 economic meltdown. How happy it is then,...
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  • 3/29/2016
  • by Glenn Erickson
  • Trailers from Hell
Brooklyn – The Review
Photo by Kerry Brown. © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

By Cate Marquis

On the surface, Brooklyn is about a young Irish woman in the 1950s moving to American to start a new life, but it is also about anyone growing up and moving away from home, whether that is going away to college or moving away to a new city for a job. The film deals with the loneliness, the homesickness, and the strangeness of being somewhere new, and all the adjustments and changes that brings. It also deals with how it feels to go back home after that. It is a story that will make anyone who has experienced that ache with remembered things. It is a meditation on identity, self-discovery and life-choices, full of nuances and shadings, set in a lovely nostalgic landscape.

Beautifully photographed and beautifully acted as well, Brooklyn is a lovely film...
See full article at WeAreMovieGeeks.com
  • 11/20/2015
  • by Movie Geeks
  • WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Brooklyn Review
When a film arrives, already lauded with glowing festival reviews and awards buzz, your expectations as you shuffle up the darkened aisle and take your seat in the cinema can be loaded to say the least. You imagine it may be over-egged as is the way these days with a lot of film fare. Thankfully Brooklyn, the adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s acclaimed novel fulfils all those expectations, delivering a thoughtful, beautiful film with a star turn from leading lady Saoirse Ronan and a great script care of Nick Hornby. It tells the tale of Eilis Lacey (Ronan), a young girl living in Enniscorthy in the early 1950’s with her older sister Rose (Fiona Glascott) and mother (Jane Brennan). Stuck in a job she despises at the local shop, her sister arranges with a family friend in Brooklyn, Father Flood (Jim Broadbent), to sponsor her emigration to New York. While Eilis grabs the opportunity,...
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  • 11/10/2015
  • by noreply@blogger.com (Clare Daly)
  • www.themoviebit.com
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Fancy checking out one of the best films of the year? Here's our review of Brooklyn, starring Saiorse Ronan.

In amongst the showier performance-led movies to come this awards season, it's reassuring to see an unassuming coming-of-age story like Brooklyn receiving its fair share of plaudits too. Based on Colm Tóibín's novel of the same name, Brooklyn follows an immigrant's trans-Atlantic love song, set between south-east Ireland and New York City.

In the 1950s, Eilis Lacey (Saiorse Ronan) is a young Irish woman living in Enniscorthy who gets the opportunity of a lifetime when kindly priest Father Flood (Jim Broadbent) arranges for her to travel to Brooklyn and take up a job at a department store. Of course, Eilis jumps at the chance, but leaves behind her elder sister Rose (Fiona Glascott) and her mother Mary (Jane Brennan) for the glamour of America.

She becomes desperately homesick,...
See full article at Den of Geek
  • 11/9/2015
  • by simonbrew
  • Den of Geek
Review: John Crowley's Superb, Luminous, And Graceful 'Brooklyn' Starring Saoirse Ronan
This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Home is where the heart is, and love, longing, and grieving for the departed fragments of our lives we can never return to are lovingly realized in John Crowley’s exquisitely crafted and beautiful “Brooklyn.” Based on the novel by Irish author Colm Tóibín, and delicately adapted by Nick Hornby, “Brooklyn” tells the story of Eilis Lacey, an Irish immigrant who travels to America in the early 1950s for a more prosperous life. Living quietly in a small rural Irish town, opportunities are scarce, and Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) feels she has little choice when a unexpected chance to move abroad at the behest of a vicar presents itself. But the unplanned adventure to America is a sudden one, and leaving behind her beloved sister (Fiona Glascott), fragile mother (Jane Brennan), and the warm familiarity she came of age...
See full article at The Playlist
  • 11/4/2015
  • by Rodrigo Perez
  • The Playlist
Sundance Review: John Crowley’s Gorgeous & Bittersweet ‘Brooklyn’ With Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson & Emory Cohen
Home is where the heart is, and love, longing, and grieving for the departed fragments of our lives we can never return to are lovingly realized in John Crowley’s exquisitely crafted and beautiful “Brooklyn.” Based on the novel by Irish author Colm Tóibín, and delicately adapted by Nick Hornby, “Brooklyn” tells the story of Eilis Lacey, an Irish immigrant who travels to America in the early 1950s for a more prosperous life. Living quietly in a small rural Irish town, opportunities are scarce, and Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) feels she has little choice when a unexpected chance to move abroad at the behest of a vicar presents itself. But the unplanned adventure to America is a sudden one, and leaving behind her beloved sister (Fiona Glascott), fragile mother (Jane Brennan), and the warm familiarity she came of age in is devastating for the trepidatious young girl. As she crosses the Atlantic,...
See full article at The Playlist
  • 1/28/2015
  • by Rodrigo Perez
  • The Playlist
Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn (2015)
Review: 'Brooklyn' is a romance that hits those with a heart hard
Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn (2015)
Park City — Sometimes the elements of a movie just gel together so well and you find yourself enjoying the ride so much that you instantly forgive the material for any of its inherent limitations. Case in point: John Crowley's new drama "Brooklyn," which premiered Monday night at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. After 20 minutes I'd written the not-so positive words "earnest" and "cutesy" in my notebook. Almost an hour and a half later I was so moved by what had transpired I was fighting back the tears. The picture isn't the achievement expected festival grand prize jury winner "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" is, but it's a damn good movie on its own terms. "Brooklyn" is based on the popular novel by Colm Tóibín and was adapted by another celebrated author, Nick Hornby ("About a Boy"). It begins in the early 1950s where Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) doesn't see...
See full article at Hitfix
  • 1/27/2015
  • by Gregory Ellwood
  • Hitfix
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