John Crowley’s Brooklyn is an adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s popular novel concerning a woman torn between rural Ireland and the titular New York borough. It tells the profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of United States of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. A superb, emotionally turbulent account of a young Irishwoman’s attempt to become an American in the early 1950s.

A heartbreaking and poignant story about choices, country, commitments, sacrifice and love, Brooklyn is a superb, luminous and bittersweet portrayal of who we are, where we’ve come from, where we’re going and the places we call home. – The Playlist

Dir: John Crowley

Ireland/ UK/ Canada

2015

105 mins

Cert: TBC
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Michael Zegen