Biography: Pat Murphy |
Pat Murphy is one of Ireland's more prominent filmmakers; two of her notable projects include Maeve (1981) and Anne Devlin (1984). She began directing while still enrolled in a London art school. Her first film was the short Rituals of Memory (1977).
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Cast: Ewan McGregor Susan Lynch Jean-François Robin Peter McDonald
Tags: Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 106min
This period drama is based on the real-life relationship of the great Irish novelist James Joyce and his longtime lover, Nora Barnacle. Aspiring writer James (Ewan McGregor) meets Nora (Susan Lynch) in Dublin in 1904. While she lacks James' interest...
Cast: Thaddeus O'Sullivan Desmond McAleer Gillian Hackett
Tags: Historical Film Drama Biopic
Length: 120min
This long, slow-paced but interesting historical docudrama, based on personal diaries, focuses on the role of Anne Devlin in a failed Dublin uprising in the 19th century. Anne was the daughter of a farmer in County Wicklow and when the Irish patriot...
Cast: Lizzie Borden Kathryn Bigelow Becky Johnston Honey
Tags: Feminist Film Drama Science Fiction Psychological Sci-Fi
Length: 90min
Independent filmmaker, artist, and critic Lizzie Borden made her feature-film debut with this bold fusion of science fiction and feminist politics. In the near future, America is celebrating the tenth anniversary of a socialist revolution that has...
Cast: Mary Jackson Pat Murphy Brid Brennan Mark Mulholland John Davies John Keegan
Tags: Feminist Film Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 110min
Maeve is a young woman living in London who is homesick for her native Ireland, and so goes back to the northern, strife-ridden environment of her home and faces some childhood memories that have not gone away with time, such as the British soldiers,...
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