The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He recalls his early life in the west of Ireland, his first love, emigrating to England, searching for his brother Joe, who disappeared after he emigrated several years previously. His marriage and wife's later depth is also remembered.
Cinematography
Ghostly black-and-white photography that breathes like memory itself.
Acting
Dermot Healy's weathered face does what dialogue cannot.
Direction
Bruce adapts a photographic novel with haunting visual tactility.
Director
Nichola Bruce
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke's acclaimed photographic novel, one of the first serious literary treatments of the Irish immigrant experience in postwar Britain.
Nichola Bruce deliberately cast non-actors alongside Stephen Rea to create that uncanny sense of watching real ghosts—Healy was primarily a novelist.
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