Brooklyn director John Crowley talks with ComingSoon.net about the Irish immigrant drama starring Saoirse Ronan
While Irish theater-turned-film director John Crowley may not yet be a household name when it comes to filmmakers, his early films Intermission and Boy A earned quite a bit of respect among his British peers, and his latest film Brooklyn, adapted from Colm Tóibín’s novel of the same name by Nick Hornby (An Education, Wild), may be the closest he’s come to an Irish film that might appeal to a very wide mainstream audience in America.
The film stars Saoirse Ronan as Eilis Lacey, a young Irish woman who decides to travel to America during the ’50s, taking a job as a clerk in a shop, and eventually meeting the charming Tony, played by Emory Cohen (The Place Beyond the Pines), whom she starts dating. Something happens that forces her to return home to Ireland, where she has to decide where her real home is, especially after spending time with another handsome young man (Domhnall Gleeson).
Brooklyn premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, remaining rather low-profile despite being picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight, but it since played both at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festivals, where audiences have been eating it up.
ComingSoon.net had a chance to talk to Crowley when he was in New York for the latter where we got to talk about the immigrant experience, the logistics of recreating 1950s Brooklyn in Montreal, creating the right tone of the movie with an abundance of character actors and lots more. You can watch the full interview in the video player below.
Brooklyn opens in select cities on Wednesday, November 4, and will likely expand into more cities over the course of November.
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