Academy Awards, USA 1968
| Nominated Oscar | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Joseph Strick Fred Haines |
British Lion Film Corporation
Directed by Joseph Strick
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Image Entertainment)
Milo O'Shea wanders around Dublin, deals with antisemitism, encounters many drunk men and faces the demons of his own past, mostly women. There are lots of fancy words and talk about God, but really little is said. He ends up in bed with his wife while she rambles on for over 30 minutes with a voice over narration that includes graphic descriptions of sex. James Joyce's novel was a curious choice to bring to the screen, and the end result shows just why.
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