BEALTAINE FESTIVAL FILMS:
MAY 8th 8PM: Brooklyn (2015 ) 117 MINS, R-13
DIRECTOR: John Crowley
STORY BY: Colm Tobin
STARRING: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Julie Walters,
Jim Broadbent, Emory Cohen.
Film based on the book of the book of the same name by the wonderful Irish writer Com Tobin. “Brooklyn” set in the 1950’s Eilis Lacey is a young woman working in a grocery shop in Enniscorthy. She has greater ambitions and moves to Brooklyn, New York, leaving her mother and sister, Rose, behind. Eilis is terribly homesick but eventually settles down, finding a job, studying to be a bookkeeper and meeting a nice young Italian man, Tony Fiorello. Things are going well, but then she learns that Rose has died, and decides to return to Ireland, temporarily. She and Tony hastily get married, and then she sets off back to Ireland, alone. Life is about to get complicated.
Bealtaine Festival Film. No admission charge.
Complementary Tea and Coffee available from 7.30pm onwards:
Sponsored by Kenmare Community Care of Taobhlinn.
Click Here to View Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1420866329/?playlistId=tt2381111&ref_=tt_ov_pr_ov_vi