This is a good little ghost story with a nice literary sub plot
thrown in for good measure. Set in a small beautiful coastal town in Ireland
during a literary festival where Ciaran Hinds lives and works as a
woodworking teacher. He also loves literature and has a secret passion to become
a writer himself, and does volunteer work for the festival every year which
usually includes driving the visiting authors around the town. His wife has
just died from Cancer a few months earlier and he is alone now with his two
pre-teen children. Into the mix comes two authors the well know and
insufferable
Nicholas Holden played
with believable nastiness by Aidan Quinn and Iben Hjejle An attractive
Danish actress who is new to me who plays an
author of supernatural books. There is a messy tangled old story involving
the married Quinn with Hjejle who appears to have had a one night stand a few
years back. Quinn wants to get back into her life, but she doesn’t want to
have anything to do with him, and who can blame her.
Ciaran who passes the time being spooked by
spooks and driving Ms Hjejle around the picturesque Irish landscape start to
bond with her as they open up with each other, and this drives the jealous Quinn
up the wall, and finally one night there is a rather nasty confrontation
between the three of them. That’s the romantic side of the film, and it paces
itself nicely jogging along side by side with the ghost story which by the
way gave me a few jolts and isn’t this what a good ghost story should do. I
had never heard of the film, until it came up as a recommendation on Netflix
and I’m glad I took their word for it. Directed and co written by the well
known Irish playwright Conor McPherson the performances are all very good. Hinds
has long been a favorite actor of mine, scraggly and built like a piece of
granite rock and looking like a cross between a Saul Steinberg and H..C.
Westermann
drawing he won the best
actor award at the Tribeca Film Fesival for his performance. The movie itself
is short but not so sweet running about 90 minutes.
This is a good little ghost story with a nice literary sub plot
thrown in for good measure. Set in a small beautiful coastal town in Ireland
during a literary festival where Ciaran Hinds lives and works as a
woodworking teacher. He also loves literature and has a secret passion to become
a writer himself, and does volunteer work for the festival every year which
usually includes driving the visiting authors around the town. His wife has
just died from Cancer a few months earlier and he is alone now with his two
pre-teen children. Into the mix comes two authors the well know and
insufferable Nicholas Holden played
with believable nastiness by Aidan Quinn and Iben Hjejle An attractive Danish actress who is new to me who plays an
author of supernatural books. There is a messy tangled old story involving
the married Quinn with Hjejle who appears to have had a one night stand a few
years back. Quinn wants to get back into her life, but she doesn’t want to
have anything to do with him, and who can blame her. Ciaran who passes the time being spooked by
spooks and driving Ms Hjejle around the picturesque Irish landscape start to
bond with her as they open up with each other, and this drives the jealous Quinn
up the wall, and finally one night there is a rather nasty confrontation
between the three of them. That’s the romantic side of the film, and it paces
itself nicely jogging along side by side with the ghost story which by the
way gave me a few jolts and isn’t this what a good ghost story should do. I
had never heard of the film, until it came up as a recommendation on Netflix
and I’m glad I took their word for it. Directed and co written by the well
known Irish playwright Conor McPherson the performances are all very good. Hinds
has long been a favorite actor of mine, scraggly and built like a piece of
granite rock and looking like a cross between a Saul Steinberg and H..C.
Westermann drawing he won the best
actor award at the Tribeca Film Fesival for his performance. The movie itself
is short but not so sweet running about 90 minutes.
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