Brooklyn
Saoirse Ronan (The Grand Budapest Hotel) leads this romance set in the 1950s as Ellis Lacey, a young Irish woman who emigrates to New York in search of a new life. Based on the novel by Colm Tóibín and adapted for the screen by Nick Hornby (An Education, Wild).
Her homesickness is alleviated when she is introduced to Italian boy Tony (Emory Cohen, The Place Beyond the Pines). But when Ellis is called back to Ireland, the life she started to build in American begins to fade, and with the advances of charming local Jim (Domhnall Gleeson, Ex Machina), that life may disappear entirely.
- Director:
- John Crowley ('Closed Circuit', 'Boy A')
- Writer:
- Nick Hornby
- Cast:
- Saoirse RonanEmory CohenJulie WaltersDomhnall GleesonJim Broadbent
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressFills a niche in which the studios once specialized, using a well-read and respected novel as the grounds for a tenderly observed tearjerker.
Total Film
pressColm Tóibín’s bitter-sweet novel of the Irish expat experience brought impeccably to the screen by Crowley and Hornby, with Saoirse Ronan excelling herself in the leaf.
Time Out
pressAs broad as it is charming, Brooklyn is an old-fashioned Sunday afternoon drama told with rare pluck and humor.
The New York Times
pressMs. Ronan uses everything - her posture, her eyebrows, her breath, her teeth, her pores - to convey a process of change that is both seismic and subtle.
The Guardian
pressWithout Ronan's performance, Brooklyn might have left a sugary taste. But she is the ingredient that brings everything together: her calm poise anchors almost every scene and every shot.
Los Angeles Times
pressA godsend for audiences who hunger for rich emotion presented with wit, grace and not a trace of sentimentality.
Hollywood Reporter
pressProvides the feeling of being lifted into a different world altogether, so transporting is the film’s sense of time and place and social mores.
Empire Magazine
pressUnashamedly romantic and achieved with a beautifully subtle, old-fashioned elegance, it's a graceful coming-of-age tale ripe for awards.
The film Brooklyn (2015) will resonate with viewers who have experienced the magnetic pull of opposing cultures or have been torn between small town familiar and the big unknown. Struggle and hardship are typical for those who leave homelands in search of better lives and tales of the migrant’s journey universally are about physical and emotional...
Saoirse Ronan is making some fantastic movies at the moment, hard to believe she was once that deadly child assassin "Hanna". I'm going off topic, sorry. Brooklyn is a wonderful story about Eilis (Ronan) who moves to New York to start a new life. I almost went into some detail about the plot but you can watch a trailer for that, this movie is a great...
I randomly won tickets to this and what a pleasant surprise it ended up being! A beautiful well done film with Domhnall Gleeson as the standout.
Great adaptation of the source novel, although as with many book-to-screen adaptations the ending is simplified. Ronan was excellent as were all the supporting actors.
An absolutely superb film that knows exactly what it is: a period romance. As such it doesn't pretend to be anything else with a completely mush free story that will suck you right in and tug at the heart strings. But it is Saoirse Ronan's outstanding performance as 50's Irish immigrant Ellis that this film revolves around, earning her a well deserved Oscar...
Variety
pressFills a niche in which the studios once specialized, using a well-read and respected novel as the grounds for a tenderly observed tearjerker.
Total Film
pressColm Tóibín’s bitter-sweet novel of the Irish expat experience brought impeccably to the screen by Crowley and Hornby, with Saoirse Ronan excelling herself in the leaf.
Time Out
pressAs broad as it is charming, Brooklyn is an old-fashioned Sunday afternoon drama told with rare pluck and humor.
The New York Times
pressMs. Ronan uses everything - her posture, her eyebrows, her breath, her teeth, her pores - to convey a process of change that is both seismic and subtle.
The Guardian
pressWithout Ronan's performance, Brooklyn might have left a sugary taste. But she is the ingredient that brings everything together: her calm poise anchors almost every scene and every shot.
Los Angeles Times
pressA godsend for audiences who hunger for rich emotion presented with wit, grace and not a trace of sentimentality.
Hollywood Reporter
pressProvides the feeling of being lifted into a different world altogether, so transporting is the film’s sense of time and place and social mores.
Empire Magazine
pressUnashamedly romantic and achieved with a beautifully subtle, old-fashioned elegance, it's a graceful coming-of-age tale ripe for awards.
The film Brooklyn (2015) will resonate with viewers who have experienced the magnetic pull of opposing cultures or have been torn between small town familiar and the big unknown. Struggle and hardship are typical for those who leave homelands in search of better lives and tales of the migrant’s journey universally are about physical and emotional...
Saoirse Ronan is making some fantastic movies at the moment, hard to believe she was once that deadly child assassin "Hanna". I'm going off topic, sorry. Brooklyn is a wonderful story about Eilis (Ronan) who moves to New York to start a new life. I almost went into some detail about the plot but you can watch a trailer for that, this movie is a great...
I randomly won tickets to this and what a pleasant surprise it ended up being! A beautiful well done film with Domhnall Gleeson as the standout.
Great adaptation of the source novel, although as with many book-to-screen adaptations the ending is simplified. Ronan was excellent as were all the supporting actors.
An absolutely superb film that knows exactly what it is: a period romance. As such it doesn't pretend to be anything else with a completely mush free story that will suck you right in and tug at the heart strings. But it is Saoirse Ronan's outstanding performance as 50's Irish immigrant Ellis that this film revolves around, earning her a well deserved...
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