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8/10
A little-known gem from Ireland
I have to agree with other reviewers that this Irish movie is above average. Although it's not a recent production, it's certainly worth tracking down. I got my copy via my public library. The actors, the dialogue and the storyline are top-notch. Add to that the bleak landscape and realistic handling of this isolated location, and you can really 'feel' how difficult it was for our young female lead character. Each character was fully realized and even the children were very well portrayed. A very mature and intelligent approach to a timeless story of young, naive infatuation and how the 'land' and community can shape your life. I was truly impressed by the solid acting, especially by the main protagonists. The pace was perfect and the emotions this story hit upon were subtly yet authentically presented. Kudos for this little-known movie/mini-series.
10/10
Loved This Movie!!!
Loved this movie! This adaptation of the Deirdre Purcell novel runs approximately 190 minutes and is worth every second. In the beginning of the film, Elizabeth Sullivan has her first romance with an actor in a traveling show and finds herself pregnant and the actor long gone. Her parents, wanting to avoid embarrassment, consult their priest for advise and he comes up with a recently widowed older man with young children who needs a wife. Left with few options, Elizabeth, played beautifully by newcomer Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, marries this stranger and endures a life much harder than the privileged one she left. Her husband, Neeley, treats her like property he's paranoid of losing, but not especially cherished property. Deirdre Purcell is an Irish author, journalist and former theatre actor. Her novel Falling for a Dancer is a highly readable story about the middle-class daughter of a Cork solicitor during the Second World War. The novel, set mainly on the bleak and barren Beara Peninsula on Cork's western seaboard, is faintly reminiscent of Irish-American Frank McCourt's memoir Angela's Ashes about his childhood in wartime Limerick, but is free of the latter's misogyny and "holier-than-thou" hypocrisy. When McCourt's book was filmed, viewers were introduced to a grim dump of a city where it rained constantly by the bucketful, much to the chagrin of the inhabitants who were worried about the effect on tourism, but McCourt insisted that this was how he remembered the place was like. Purcell's Beara has similar precipitation levels, at least in the – considerably altered - film adaptation of her book, for which she wrote the script, but in the novel, the area can be mythical and even welcoming; after all, Purcell spent several years of her life here. In some ways, Ireland is an ideal backdrop for feminist analysis. Until recently, the Republic was a quasi-ecclesiastical state, where the RC Church dominated politics, and where Christian Brothers educated boys, and nuns the girls. In the 1840s, Ireland was ravaged by famines caused by the failure of the potato crop, drastically reducing the population and causing a brain drain of emigration, primarily to the USA and Canada. The little help that came from mainland Britain (Ireland was then an integral part of the United Kingdom), reached the anglicised East of Ireland, which had a better supply of food in the first place whereas the poor and barren West, populated by subsistence farmers who were utterly dependent on an intensive, protein-rich crop which could be grown intensively on tiny portions of land, was devastated. At the same time, the ancient Irish language rapidly died ou 1998 Irish TV series or programme Falling for a Dancer is an Irish 1998 romantic dramatelevision movie set in rural Ireland in the 1930s. It first aired on BBC One in four 50-minute episodes on 13 September 1998. Set in 1930s Cork, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with a young actor and dancer and becomes pregnant. With no chance of finding the father, and trying to avoid entering the Magdalene Laundries, she chooses to marry an older man who she first meets on her wedding day and moves to her new life in West Cork. The series follows Elizabeth through this marriage and her new life on a farm in West Cork. It is here Elizabeth has her baby but her choice of marriage has its darker side; resentment from her step children, moments of tragedy and a longing for young love and passion that she does not get from her husband, Neeley. It was filmed in Beara, County Cork on the southwest coast.
Watching from the hill above is Neeley's cousin, Mossie Sheenan (Liam Cunningham). Neeley inherited his farm from Mossie's father, who died when Mossie was very young and probably before he could change his will to leave the place to his son - a situation that has caused b Review: Falling for a Dancer by Deirdre Purcell
Falling for a Dancer
Falling for a Dancer Based on Falling for a Dancer
by Deirdre PurcellScreenplay by Deirdre Purcell Directed by Richard Standeven Starring Elisabeth Dermot Walsh Theme music composer Stephen McKeon Country of origin Ireland Original language English No. of episodes 4 Producer Peter Norris Editor Richard Milward Running time 200 minutes Network BBC One Release 13 September (1998-09-13) –
4 October 1998 (1998-10-04)Plot
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