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When Saoirse Ronan heard those words from the immigration officer she knew she had made it to America from her beloved Ireland. We begin in 1950 when Ireland still operated as if it were a hundred years behind and Young Ellis wanted more out of life than small town Ireland. Her local priest made arrangements through the church and she was received by Broadbent the ever wise and kind Brooklyn priest. She was put in a boarding house with other Irish girls who were lorded over by the Irish owner and mother to them all. Those evening meals provide quite a bit of humor by not nearly as much as Ellis' first trip to her first fella's home for supper with a large, boisterous Italian family with an eight year old brother who never runs short of the wrong words and ideas.
Ellis is stricken with home sickness, falls in love, gets quietly married, and suddenly loses a family member that requires her to boat back to Ireland. While there she is pursued the by the local catch and fights succumbing to his Irish gentlemen ways.
I don't have to read the book to know this is a great adaptation. The story flows and Ronan plays it down low as shy Irish lass coming to the new world. There are a lot of laughs and some tears and it makes you think about how our fore-bearers felt coming from their European roots to be here in a land of limitless possibilities.
This is a date flick and the old ball-and-chain will require an extra hanky just in case. Unless she is overtaken by the beauty of it all: art direction, costume, locations . . . a typically beautiful film from GB.
Don't miss it.
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I imagine they were doing so before my Grandparents passed through Ellis Island in
the early '30's.
We honeymooned in Brooklyn 19 years ago, one of the greatest cities in the world,
has a history for the ages.
My wife LOVES the book.
GB? Great Britain?
Thanks for the review!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
SU was told that the old Brooklyn presents itself, the place where she grew up, and where her grandparents settled after arriving by boat from a disturbed Europe.
If that's true, then everyone should see this, if only for that -- a slice of history.
...she is likely to be a Best Actress nominee I hear.
'Atonement' and 'The Lovely Bones' made me a fan. I've noticed that a few pounds here or there seems to change her appearance. Still disarmingly lovely.
(nt)
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