Angelika Film Center
18 W Houston St
212.995.2000
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The Eclipse
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- When
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Mar 26, 2010 – May 30, 2010
Daily
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- Price
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$12.50
“Between grief and nothing, widower and father-of-two Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) chooses grief — a perfectly Gothic response in Irish dramatist Conor McPherson's excellent and often breathtaking new film. In this atmospheric and spectral portrait — apparitions and startling hues expertly double to rouse you from the beautifully lulling gloom — Michael gets psychologically and physically beaten out of his Edgar Allan "Woe" phase (his middle-aged, ecclesiastic face initially spells "nevermore" to the opposite sex) over a cathartic weekend spent volunteering at the local Cobh Literary Festival, for which he chauffeurs two writers caught in an internecine relationship themselves.”
Jason Jude Chan, Flavorpill
A seaside town in County Cork sets the stage for THE ECLIPSE, a film Variety calls full of “seductive grace and humor”. Michael (Ciarán Hinds: 2009 Tribeca winner for Best Actor in a Narrative Feature), a teacher raising two children alone since his wife’s death two years earlier, has begun to see and hear strange, frightening things in his home. Fortunately, he befriends author Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle) who specializes in the supernatural. For the first time, he has someone who accepts the reality of what’s happening to him, but Michael and Lena’s connection is complicated by her admirer, Nicholas (Aidan Quinn). Embellished by the paranormal, THE ECLIPSE is a film about the challenges of love, fear of the unknown and release from the burden of grief.
