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
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksSeeking independence, young Irish woman Ellis (Saoirse Ronan) emigrates to 1950s New York, where she secretly marries. Returning to Ireland to care for her mother, Ellis encounters a new romance, and inner conflict: should she return to her Big Apple husband, or remain with her Irish family and newfound love?
A beautifully photographed and finely acted historical drama.
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...
Great story about Home Sickness
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...
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.
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksSeeking independence, young Irish woman Ellis (Saoirse Ronan) emigrates to 1950s New York, where she secretly marries. Returning to Ireland to care for her mother, Ellis encounters a new romance, and inner conflict: should she return to her Big Apple husband, or remain with her Irish family and newfound love?
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.
A beautifully photographed and finely acted historical drama.
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...
Great story about Home Sickness
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...
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