Since it has premiered at TIFF, we would have a lot of reviews/reactons. I think it would be best to start a thread with
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Steve7216 — 10 years ago(September 15, 2015 09:45 AM)
Yes, I thought it was apparent from its debut at Sundance that the reviews were going in a very positive direction. I'm hoping we see more filter out before the next batch when the film screens at the New York Film Festival beginning on 7 October.
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zorrodvd — 10 years ago(September 15, 2015 01:23 PM)
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Steve7216 — 10 years ago(September 15, 2015 06:25 PM)
Thanks for the link zorro. This is a great review. Here it is in its entirety:
From JoBlo/ By: Chris Bumbray 15 September 2015
PLOT: In the 1950's, a young Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) leaves her family and home behind to start a new life in the United States. Settling in Brooklyn, the comely young woman finds a new sense of self, especially once she falls in love with a kindhearted plumber (Emory Cohen). Her happiness is short-lived when a family tragedy forces her to return to Ireland, where she begins to succumb to the charms of a kindly former neighbor (Domhnall Gleeson) making her unsure of where her real home truly lies.
REVIEW: John Crowley's BROOKLYN was a film I was hellbent to catch at this year's Sundance Film Festival. A raging fever prevented me from seeing what had been one of my most-anticipated films of this festival, with Crowley's previous BOY A being one of my favorite movies of the last few years (it helped by Andrew Garfield on the map). Good things come to those who wait, and I'm pleased to say that Crowley's ode to the immigrant experience is just as charming as the early reviews promised.
More than anything, BROOKLYN will be remembered as the movie where Saoirse Ronan truly crossed-over and became an adult lead after years of playing juveniles. Her performance here is strong enough that Oscar chatter seems like a logical result, with her exquisitely capturing the many conflicts that emerge in the soul of a person forced to redefine their identity after being cut-off from everything they know.
Her performance is often stunning, with early scenes depicting her Ellis as a comely young Irish lass, who's perfectly content with her lot in-life. It's her older, educated sister who demands she go abroad in order to craft a new, more modern life for herself away from the vicious gossips and repressive church life.
In a twist, her salvation in America actually comes from a kindly priest (an extremely lovable Jim Broadbent) who senses the girl's intelligence and encourages her to be independent. It's wonderful to see how Ronan blossoms into a confident woman, and her romance with Emory Cohen's gentlemanly Italian plumber winds up being one of the more effective screen romances in recent years. While his James Dean/Marlon Brando-like method drawl is a little thick, Cohen really does have an awful lot of charm, and his chemistry with Ronan is superb.
BROOKLYN is really a movie of two halves, with one being set stateside (they could have called it Montreal with all the period Brooklyn location work having been done there) while the other is a kind of genteel coming home tale not unlike THE QUIET MAN albeit given a modern feminist slant once Ronan goes back to Ireland. Domhnall Gleeson is excellent as Cohen's kindly, appealing rival for her affections, and one of the most satisfying things about the film is how free of conflict it really is, with this being more of a gentle story about good people simply trying to be happy.
Nick Hornsby's adaptation of the Colm Toibin novel is superb, in that it expertly provides juicy, likable supporting roles for even the most minor characters, with Eva Birthistle making a big impression early-on as a tough but kind passenger on the ship to America who takes Ellis under her wing. Once in Brooklyn, Julie Walters steals every scene as Ellis' sharp-tongued but lovable boarding house landlord (another potential Oscar nominee).
Despite the fact it wasn't shot in Brooklyn, the film does a terrific job evoking the fifties, with the lushness of the Irish countryside (shot by Yves Belanger) being a beautiful contrast. Crowley's work behind the camera here is top-notch, and this along with the handful of episodes he directed in this season of True Detective (he did the better installments) suggest a director at the top of his prowess. This is truly a pleasant, lovely film which is a sharp contrast to the darker and more challeging fare the Toronto International Film Festival is generally known for. Even if period romances aren't your cup of tea, give BROOKLYN a shot. It has a genuine openhearted-ness to it that is rare in film nowadays, and should resonate with anyone who ever left home for a life where happiness was the goal but far from a sure thing.
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DCI77 — 10 years ago(September 15, 2015 10:11 PM)
More than anything, BROOKLYN will be remembered as the movie where Saoirse Ronan truly crossed-over and became an adult lead after years of playing juveniles.
Her performance here is strong enough that Oscar chatter seems like a logical result, with her exquisitely capturing the many conflicts that emerge in the soul of a person forced to redefine their identity after being cut-off from everything they know.
http:16d0//www.imdb.com/board/21519680/board/thread/237581712?p=4&d=239594793#239594793
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Steve7216 — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 04:09 AM)
Joe Utichi @joeutichi 1h1 hour ago
Brooklyn is spectacular. Saoirse Ronan arrives as a serious adult actor, in a wonderfully moving human story. #tiff15
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Steve7216 — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 04:50 AM)
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Steve7216 — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 07:10 AM)
I just got the O.K. to copy what an audience member wrote about Saoirse on the Brooklyn board. The title of the post was
"Saoirse Ronan is mesmerizing."
by Arit 1 day ago (Tue Sep 15 2015 05:48:11) Flag | Reply |
IMDb member since September 1999
Her screen presence in this film is incredible.
Aside from her Irish ancestry which makes her a natural fit for the role, there's something magical about her portrayal that makes you actually root for the protagonist.
I've been always wondering what the fuss surrounding her was all about, having not watched Atonement (2007) and most other films starring her. Now Brooklyn (2015) alone is enough evidence to me of her great p1c84otential.
Here is the followup:
by Arit 1 hour ago (Wed Sep 16 2015 05:45:20)
IMDb member since September 1999
Post Edited: Wed Sep 16 2015 05:52:00
No problem. Feel free to share it on the Saoirse board!
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Steve7216 — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 08:55 AM)
Others in Toronto vying for Oscar gold include Saoirse Ronan, whose work as an Irish immigrant to New York in Brooklyn packs a wallop so subtle it wont hit you until after you walk out of the theater;
http://tinyurl.com/p827f4k
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pmfg_pan — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 03:03 PM)
TinyURL and its ilk are used because IMDb stubbornly refuses to upgrade its forum software to something that can handle long links with a variety of special characters.
That problem has already been solved long time ago. So it doesn't make sense anymore to use TinyURL. -
pmfg_pan — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 05:04 PM)
Just read the heading for each post.
Sometimes you just post the link without saying anything else, like in this post.
http://www.imdb.com/board/21519680/board/thread/248298978?d=248377219#248377219
I really don't understand why you are so stubborn when it comes to using tinyurl? It just means more work for you and then it also makes things less user friendly for the people reading it. -
pmfg_pan — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 06:25 PM)
Doesn't the heading indicate the subject matter?
Only if I click on it, otherwhise I only see a random tinyurl link.
The point of not using tinyurl is that we can see immediatly on the url what the link is about, without having to click on it. For example, here is the link of the interview you posted before, but this time without the tinyurl. You can immediately read the heading in the url itself and that Indiewire is the site.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/toronto-how-brooklyn-director-john-crowley-avoids-earnestness-in-his-emotion-driven-films-20150915
This becomes specially useful in very big threads, where you try to find an old link that you saw a few weeks before. But with all these tinyurls it becomes like looking for a needle in a haystack.
