Chicago – I often find that the most interesting characters in a ghost story are not the ghosts themselves, but the humans who encounter them. Ghosts are reflections of a past we are unwilling to depart from, even if it halts us from entering the future. It’s a consolation for us to believe that our departed loved ones view us as their “unfinished business.”
Like “The Sixth Sense,” “The Eclipse” is primarily a human drama with occasional jolts of chilling horror. It centers on a character we’ve all seen before, the haunted widower grieving over his wife’s death, yet the filmmakers refuse to turn him into a cliché. He’s played by Ciarán Hinds, one of the finest and most underrated character actors in recent cinema, who’s popped up in everything from “There Will Be Blood” to “In Bruges,” and will soon be known to American audiences...
Like “The Sixth Sense,” “The Eclipse” is primarily a human drama with occasional jolts of chilling horror. It centers on a character we’ve all seen before, the haunted widower grieving over his wife’s death, yet the filmmakers refuse to turn him into a cliché. He’s played by Ciarán Hinds, one of the finest and most underrated character actors in recent cinema, who’s popped up in everything from “There Will Be Blood” to “In Bruges,” and will soon be known to American audiences...
- 6/29/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Chicago – I often find that the most interesting characters in a ghost story are not the ghosts themselves, but the humans who encounter them. Ghosts are reflections of a past we are unwilling to depart from, even if it halts us from entering the future. It’s a consolation for us to believe that our departed loved ones view us as their “unfinished business.”
My favorite scene in “The Sixth Sense” is not the final revelation, but the scene that precedes it, taking place in a stationary car where a mother and son share a stunning moment of spiritual catharsis. It’s the best scene of M. Night Shyamalan’s career, and should’ve garnered Oscars for actors Toni Collette and Haley Joel Osment. But more to the point, it beautifully articulated the innate need of mankind to connect with the world beyond, a truth that’s also powerfully...
Chicago – I often find that the most interesting characters in a ghost story are not the ghosts themselves, but the humans who encounter them. Ghosts are reflections of a past we are unwilling to depart from, even if it halts us from entering the future. It’s a consolation for us to believe that our departed loved ones view us as their “unfinished business.”
My favorite scene in “The Sixth Sense” is not the final revelation, but the scene that precedes it, taking place in a stationary car where a mother and son share a stunning moment of spiritual catharsis. It’s the best scene of M. Night Shyamalan’s career, and should’ve garnered Oscars for actors Toni Collette and Haley Joel Osment. But more to the point, it beautifully articulated the innate need of mankind to connect with the world beyond, a truth that’s also powerfully...
- 4/16/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Conor McPherson loves the supernatural. He adores ghosts and zombies. Some have even made it into his recent film The Eclipse, a drama that is not quite horror. Here again we must engage in the taxonomy debate. Horror generally focuses on the sense and degree of dread injected into a storyline, visuals, and sound. But where are the borders of horror? And what becomes of the films that float on the edge, like this very film we have here? How does the fan or marketer address them?
I believe both can enjoy The Eclipse (review here), but it merely bears only some of the markings of the beast. As a horror fan I expect more and want to be overwhelmed and hurt by vicious images. This film is quaint. Its lovely undead are reminiscent of the creatures in Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie -- another film...
I believe both can enjoy The Eclipse (review here), but it merely bears only some of the markings of the beast. As a horror fan I expect more and want to be overwhelmed and hurt by vicious images. This film is quaint. Its lovely undead are reminiscent of the creatures in Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie -- another film...
- 3/29/2010
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
Chicago – In our latest supernatural thriller edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “The Eclipse” starring Ciarán Hinds!
“The Eclipse” stars Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn, Dorothy Cotter, Eanna Hardwicke, Hannah Lynch, Jim Norton and Hilary O’Shaughnessy from writer and director Conor McPherson. The film opens in Chicago on April 2, 2010.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Eclipse” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “The Eclipse” with Ciarán Hinds.
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Here is “The Eclipse” plot description:
“The Eclipse” tells the story of Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds). He’s a teacher raising his...
“The Eclipse” stars Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn, Dorothy Cotter, Eanna Hardwicke, Hannah Lynch, Jim Norton and Hilary O’Shaughnessy from writer and director Conor McPherson. The film opens in Chicago on April 2, 2010.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Eclipse” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “The Eclipse” with Ciarán Hinds.
Image credit: Magnolia Pictures
Here is “The Eclipse” plot description:
“The Eclipse” tells the story of Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds). He’s a teacher raising his...
- 3/29/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Enter for a great chance to win a poster of Magnolia Pictures' "The Eclipse" signed by star Ciarán Hinds as well as director Conor McPherson! The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year and won the Best Actor award for Hinds. Conor McPherson helmed from his own screenplay. The film is produced by Robert Walpole. "The Eclipse" is now available on VOD, Amazon & Xbox and opens in theaters Friday, March 26th. Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help...
- 3/26/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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The Irish have a fascination with ghosts and writer-director Colin McPherson has an idea about why. "I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe," says the playwright and filmmaker in a telephone interview. "For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche. And then Catholicism took hold - and it was a superstitious religion with ghostly imagery. There's something in our culture that makes us connect with that." From that notion springs The Eclipse, the newest film by the author of such plays as Shining City and The Seafarer. The film, which opens in limited release today (3/26/10), is a romantic drama about a high-school woodworking teacher, Michael Farr (played by Ciaran Hinds), who works as a volunteer at the annual literary...
- 3/26/2010
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
(Ciaran Hinds in The Eclipse, above.)
By Terry Keefe
“Starring Ciaran Hinds.” It’s about time.
The very talented Belfast-born actor has been the lead in numerous prominent stage productions over his career, but on-screen, he is better known for some of the best cinematic supporting work of the past ten years: as the under boss of sorts to Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood; the slightly nerdy Mossad agent who falls for the absolutely wrong undercover woman in Munich; the President of Russia in The Sum of All Fears; and as an imposing, regal, but also very human, Julius Caesar in the HBO’s “Rome,” amongst many others. With The Eclipse, Hinds steps up to the top of the marquee, and the new suit fits him well. I just hope that he doesn’t swear off supporting roles in the future now, because Hinds has added an extra...
By Terry Keefe
“Starring Ciaran Hinds.” It’s about time.
The very talented Belfast-born actor has been the lead in numerous prominent stage productions over his career, but on-screen, he is better known for some of the best cinematic supporting work of the past ten years: as the under boss of sorts to Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood; the slightly nerdy Mossad agent who falls for the absolutely wrong undercover woman in Munich; the President of Russia in The Sum of All Fears; and as an imposing, regal, but also very human, Julius Caesar in the HBO’s “Rome,” amongst many others. With The Eclipse, Hinds steps up to the top of the marquee, and the new suit fits him well. I just hope that he doesn’t swear off supporting roles in the future now, because Hinds has added an extra...
- 3/26/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
A screenplay caught between pools of blood and emotional healing, .Eclipse. cannot make up its mind any more than can its ambivalent characters Lead actor Ciarán Hinds walked away with the Best Actor Narrative Feature award at last spring.s Tribeca Film Festival in New York for his corker of a performance in this haunting drama of connection after death. Hinds plays recently widowed Michael Farr. Farr decidedly is not himself as he tries to raise his two young children. In fact, the kids seem a good deal more together than Michael, who has vague aspirations to be a writer but can hardly address an envelope. The setting is the town of Cobh in County Cork, Ireland, and is about...
- 3/25/2010
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
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As noted here last month when he joined Movieline for a round of My Favorite Scene, Irish actor Ciarán Hinds is known to work frequently. Ok, a lot. And this week, the face you know from scores of high-powered indies (including There Will Be Blood and Margot at the Wedding), studio blockbusters (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Race to Witch Mountain) and a TV watershed here or there (Rome) stars in his first leading role in The Eclipse. Writer-director Conor McPherson's genre-bending tale present Hinds as Michael Farr, a widower dealing with grief, single fatherhood, a clinically depressed father-in-law, a hyper-jealous prick (Aidan Quinn) going after a mutual love interest (Iben Hjejle), and ghosts. Or so Michael thinks -- and so the viewer thinks, thanks to McPherson's exquisite cocktail of atmospherics and jolts and Hinds's vulnerability to phantasmagoria of what may (or may not) be his own making.
- 3/25/2010
- Movieline
It’s no surprise that “The Eclipse” is directed and written by a playwright. Although a suspense ghost story, Conor McPherson’s film relies on character and performance to draw viewers into what is essentially a love story with an ending that is satisfyingly unsatisfying.
Journeyman supporting player Ciarán Hinds takes the romantic lead as Michael Farr, father of two, teacher of woodshop and volunteer at the annual Cobh Literary Festival. Subtle clues indicate he is a widower. He is literally haunted by his grief, as late-night knocking at his front door is followed by the sound of footsteps and a glimpse of a shadowy figure. He thinks it’s his nursing-home-bound father-in-law, a man not quite dead yet.
A foil to the quietly masculine Farr is Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn), a whiny, preening celebrity author and a drunk who can work a room but shudders at the thought of actually socializing with his fans.
Journeyman supporting player Ciarán Hinds takes the romantic lead as Michael Farr, father of two, teacher of woodshop and volunteer at the annual Cobh Literary Festival. Subtle clues indicate he is a widower. He is literally haunted by his grief, as late-night knocking at his front door is followed by the sound of footsteps and a glimpse of a shadowy figure. He thinks it’s his nursing-home-bound father-in-law, a man not quite dead yet.
A foil to the quietly masculine Farr is Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn), a whiny, preening celebrity author and a drunk who can work a room but shudders at the thought of actually socializing with his fans.
- 3/23/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
How does someone show range while keeping each character truthful and believable? Of course that's the ultimate acting question. But to see powerful examples, watch Irish actor Ciarán Hinds in his vast variety of roles. From romantic leads (Captain Wentworth in 1995's "Persuasion" and Mr. Rochester in 1997's "Jane Eyre") to empire-builders (Gaius Julius Caesar in BBC/HBO's series "Rome"), from murderers (Jim Browner in "The Cardboard Box") to cartoon character (Botticelli the rat in "The Tale of Despereaux"), from working with Paul Thomas Anderson ("There Will Be Blood") to an upcoming "Harry Potter" film—there's no doubt he can do it all, while remaining true to each character's nature and each project's style. And that's just screen projects. He was cast by Peter Brook in the six-hour theatre piece "The Mahabharata," then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing the title role in Sam Mendes' "Richard III." Hinds also...
- 3/23/2010
- backstage.com
The Eclipse is a small, brooding Irish film that defies genre. Adapted from a short story by writer Billy Roche, it is, as director and screenwriter Conor McPherson says, "a love story, it's a ghost story, it's scary but it's moving, it's funny." Ciaran Hinds, the award-winning Irish actor of the stage and screen, stars as Michael Farr, a mourning widower with two small children and pipe dreams of being a writer. He helps organize and volunteers at a yearly literature festival in the small town of Cobh, and while he helps out a visiting author, Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), he thinks he's found someone who might understand just what he's been going through. Morelle writes about the supernatural, and unfortunately, Farr has been experiencing a bit of that in his life, or so he suspects. She, however, is involved with another visiting author, Nicholas Holden, played by Aidan Quinn,...
- 3/23/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
One of the movies that really took us by surprise at last year's Tribeca Film Festival was Conor McPherson's The Eclipse , a film set in a small Irish seaside town that mixes genres in a flud way we haven't seen very often in recent years. McPherson, an Irish playwright, essentially adapted the short story "Table Manners" from Billy Roche's collection "Tales from Rainwater Pond" and took it in a very different for the film. Ciaran Hinds, who also starred in McPherson's Broadway play "The Seafarer," plays Michael Farr, a lonely widower and father of two still not quite over the death of his wife, who is assigned to drive British horror author Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle) around during the town's annual literary fair. Being that Michael has started...
- 3/23/2010
- Comingsoon.net
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Conor McPherson's The Eclipse is a gem: a smart, deliberately paced tale of mourning and renewal, a ghost story with a few moments of terror and well-observed emotional truths. Based on a short story by Billy Roche (and cowritten by Roche and McPherson), The Eclipse is about Michael Farr (Ciaran Hinds), a widower in the Irish town of Cobh, where he lives with his two pre-teen children He teaches woodworking at the local school and, on the weekend in which the film is set, is serving as a volunteer driver for the local literary festival. But Michael is troubled in ways he can't define. He hears and sees things in the drafty old townhouse where he lives, though he isn't sure whether they're ghosts or something else. The fact that the first one he sees looks like his father-in-law, Malachy (Jim...
- 3/23/2010
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
Conor McPherson's Eclipse is part love story and part ghost story, about a widower named Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) who isn't sure if he's having terrifying nightmares or if his house is actually haunted. Thanks to a literary festival taking place in his hometown, he has the chance to consult with Lena Morelle, a supernatural-fiction writer (Iben Hjejle, High Fidelity), to whom he's immediately drawn. Hinds explains the subtle emotions behind his character's visitations. Q: The idea for this film came together while you were working with Conor McPherson on Broadway, in The Seafarer.A: Conor's work often has a supernatural, otherworldly element to it, and his friend Billy Roche had written this short story called "Table Manners" -- and, as usual, I can't figure out for the life of me why it has that title. But Billy asked Conor what he thought, and Conor was taken by the...
- 3/22/2010
- AMC News Interviews
Magnolia Pictures will open The Eclipse, an exquisitely crafted supernatural drama from Tony Award-nominated Irish writer/director and playwright Conor McPherson on Friday, March 26th, in five cities across Southern California and in New York City, followed by a nationwide rollout in April. Just to reassure you -- this has nothing to do with The Twilight Saga, and we've got the stills and trailer to prove it!
Ciarán Hinds (Munich, There Will Be Blood), winner of the Best Actor award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for his performance in The Eclipse, stars opposite High Fidelity's Iben Hjejle and Aidan Quinn (soon to be seen in Jonah Hex) in this engrossing story of love, loss, and one man’s need to begin life again.
Synopsis:
Michael Farr (Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children.
Ciarán Hinds (Munich, There Will Be Blood), winner of the Best Actor award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for his performance in The Eclipse, stars opposite High Fidelity's Iben Hjejle and Aidan Quinn (soon to be seen in Jonah Hex) in this engrossing story of love, loss, and one man’s need to begin life again.
Synopsis:
Michael Farr (Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children.
- 3/12/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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Magnolia Pictures just released this new featurette for the upcoming film “The Eclipse” from director Conor McPherson and starring Ciaran Hinds, Iben Hjejle and Aidan Quinn. Synopsis: Michael Farr (Ciaran Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, [...]...
- 3/3/2010
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Geoff Gilmore, Conor McPherson, Ciaran Hinds On the first night of NYC's second massive snowstorm of the season, a full house of hardy souls enjoyed a special Tribeca Cinemas screening of The Eclipse, which played at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. At the event, hosted by Bloomberg, writer/director Conor McPherson and star Ciaran Hinds were on hand to answer questions from the audience and from Tribeca's Chief Creative Officer Geoff Gilmore. Hinds, who won best actor at Tff last year, plays Michael Farr, a grieving widower and father who thinks he might be seeing ghosts. When Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), a famous author of supernatural thrillers, arrives at the local literary festival, it seems that Michael has found a sympathetic ear - and perhaps more. On top of his problems at home, which include an unruly son, a grieving daughter, and things that go bump in the night, he also...
- 2/26/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
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Magnolia Pictures announced that Conor McPherson’s acclaimed ghost story, “The Eclipse”, won three top prizes at the Irish Film and Television Awards this last Sunday, Feb. 21. “The Eclipse” from director Conor McPherson stars Ciaran Hinds, Iben Hjejle and Aidan Quinn. Synopsis: Michael Farr (Ciaran Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an empathetic author [...]...
- 2/23/2010
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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Magnolia Pictures released a new official movie trailer for the upcoming film “The Eclipse” from director Conor McPherson and starring Ciaran Hinds, Iben Hjejle and Aidan Quinn. Synopsis: Michael Farr (Ciaran Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish [...]...
- 1/28/2010
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
There's something about Ireland that lends itself to ghost stories, hauntings in particular. It's a place legendary for being more than a place, where souls belong to the soil and the land calls blood back from across cold wide seas. A ghost story set in Ireland is almost redundant because in stories the land echoes with such spirits that it is already haunted before a proper ghost seeps into the tale.
The Eclipse is just such a ghost story set in Ireland and starring the inimitable Ciarán Hinds, good old Gaius Julius Caesar himself. The film hit the film festivals last year, winning "Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver" at Sitges and netting Hinds Best Actor at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The official summary is a bit on the long side: "Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) is a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier.
The Eclipse is just such a ghost story set in Ireland and starring the inimitable Ciarán Hinds, good old Gaius Julius Caesar himself. The film hit the film festivals last year, winning "Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver" at Sitges and netting Hinds Best Actor at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The official summary is a bit on the long side: "Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) is a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier.
- 1/21/2010
- by Steven Lloyd Wilson
Magnolia Pictures has released a brand new trailer for supernatural film "The Eclipse". Though the characters talk much about ghosts, the video that was debuted by Apple itself does not show any creepy thing.
In an Irish town by the sea, widower Michael Farr who raises two kids alone since his wife's death believes he is seeing apparitions. When becoming a volunteer at the town's annual literary festival, he meets Lena Morelle, a writer of supernatural novels.
For the first time, he has met someone who can accept the reality of what has been happening to him. As he begins to develop a relationship with Lena, Michael finds competition from American writer Nicholas Holden who is trying to win her over.
Embellished by the supernatural, "The Eclipse" is a film about the challenges of love, fear of the unknown and release from the burden of grief. It stars Ciaran Hinds as Michael Farr,...
In an Irish town by the sea, widower Michael Farr who raises two kids alone since his wife's death believes he is seeing apparitions. When becoming a volunteer at the town's annual literary festival, he meets Lena Morelle, a writer of supernatural novels.
For the first time, he has met someone who can accept the reality of what has been happening to him. As he begins to develop a relationship with Lena, Michael finds competition from American writer Nicholas Holden who is trying to win her over.
Embellished by the supernatural, "The Eclipse" is a film about the challenges of love, fear of the unknown and release from the burden of grief. It stars Ciaran Hinds as Michael Farr,...
- 1/20/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The Holmes and Rahe Stress Measurement chart indicates degrees of stress from 1 to 100, where, for example, increased arguments with a spouse measures 35 and a marital separation scores 65. The highest level of stress is death of a spouse, which rates the full 100, though one could argue that the death of a child is off the charts. Two of the characters in Conor McPherson.s ghost-and-love film are afflicted with top scores. An aging Malachy McNeill (Jim Norton), now in a nursing home, suffers the loss of his daughter, Eleanor. McNeill.s son-in-law, Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), must now provide for his young son Thomas (Eanna Hardwicke) and daughter Sarah (Hannah Lynch), without help. Since Michael.s wife died just three years back, he is impacted enough by the loss to experience hallucinations, ghosts if you will; one, the scary kind, is of his father-in-law who screams and looks enraged; the other is of his departed wife,...
- 1/15/2010
- Arizona Reporter
Magnolia Pictures just sent us the official movie poster for the upcoming film “The Eclipse” from director Conor McPherson and starring Ciaran Hinds, Iben Hjejle and Aidan Quinn. Synopsis: Michael Farr (Ciaran Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his [...]...
- 12/23/2009
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
See the first poster for Magnolia Pictures' "The Eclipse" which will premiere on VOD, Amazon and Xbox Live February 26th, 2010 and opens in theatres March 26th, 2010. The drama stars Ciarán Hinds, Aidan Quinn and Iben Hjejle. Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own—she’s being jealously...
- 12/23/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Ghosts stories are becoming a popular focal point for filmmakers again, experiencing what may turn out to be the early stages of a resurgence such as we’ve seen with vampire stories. The interesting thing about ghost stories however, is that there really are no set in stone rules by which to follow in regards to the lore. Simply put, ghost stories have virtually no boundaries and The Eclipse certainly proves this point.
The story takes place in Ireland and follows a driver named Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) as he assists at a literary convention. Michael still mourns the unfortunate death of his wife while raising two children by himself. During the convention, Michael meets a visiting British novelist of ghost stories named Lena Morelle, played by Iben Hjejle (High Fidelity). The two quickly develop an intimate friendship as Michael also struggles with the feeling that he is being haunted...
The story takes place in Ireland and follows a driver named Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) as he assists at a literary convention. Michael still mourns the unfortunate death of his wife while raising two children by himself. During the convention, Michael meets a visiting British novelist of ghost stories named Lena Morelle, played by Iben Hjejle (High Fidelity). The two quickly develop an intimate friendship as Michael also struggles with the feeling that he is being haunted...
- 11/15/2009
- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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