CIRCLE OF FRIENDS 1995, 103 minutes Based on the novel by Maeve Binchy, this coming-of-age film opens in the small 1950s town of Knockglen. Minnie Driver plays Benny, a teenager whose circle of friends consists of willowy Nan and Eve,...
BELFAST 2021, 98 minutes Directed by Kenneth Branagh and based his own childhood experiences in 1969 Northern Ireland, this film chronicles a working-class Protestant family as seen through the eyes of Buddy, a nine-year-old boy. With his parents trying to...
THE MATCHMAKER 1997, 97 minutes With St. Patrick’s soon upon us, Irish rom-coms can be a tricky thing. John Ford’s 1952 classic The Quiet Man now comes across as so brutal it should have a restraining order slapped on it....
MY LEFT FOOT 1989, 103 minutes In this extraordinary film Daniel Day Lewis plays Christy Brown, who was born in Depression-era Dublin to a family of 22 children––thirteen of whom survived infancy. That Christy Brown himself survived is something of...
ONDINE 2009, 111 minutes No series involving Ireland would be complete without one film that touches upon the mythic. Ondine does this, but in a sardonic way, updated to the era of the European Union. Set on the coast of...
