March Film Club

 Happy March everyone! In keeping with past Film Club tradition, I have tried to find a film that is in some part Irish, whether its actors, director, writer, setting, etc. and for this year I have chosen John Crowley's Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is a 2015 romantic period drama film directed by John Crowley and written by Nick Hornby, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Colm Toibin. A co-production between the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada, it stars Saoirse Ronan in the lead role, with Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, and Julie Walters in supporting roles. The plot follows Eilis Lacey, a young Irishwoman who emigrates to Brooklyn in the early 1950s to find employment. After building a life there, she is drawn back to her home town of Enniscorthy and has to choose where she wants to forge her future. 

It currently holds a certified fresh rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and Glenn Kenny, writing for Rogerebert.com, gave the film 4/4 stars saying this in his review, "The persistent feeling that this movie so beautifully creates is that even when the world is bestowing blessings upon us, it's still at the bottom a sad place, and the key to an emotionally healthy existence involves some rooted acceptance of that. The movie ends with Eilis having made some substantial steps to that accepting place, and also determined to move purposefully forward. People have spoken about how understated and old-fashioned "Brooklyn" is, to the extent that it might come across as a pleasant innocuous entertainment. Don't be fooled. "Brooklyn" is not toothless. But it is big-hearted, romantic and beautiful."

We will be meeting Thursday, Mar. 28 at 5:30 pm

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15syDwC000k

Hope to see you there!