Fresh
There's also a rather awesome and unpretentious directness as well as calmness about the way that Huston contemplates his own rapidly approaching death.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Overview
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
Director and cast
- John Huston Director
- Anjelica Huston as Gretta Conroy
- Donal McCann as Gabriel Conroy
- Dan O'Herlihy as Mr. Browne
- Helena Carroll as Aunt Kate
- Cathleen Delany as Aunt Julia
- Ingrid Craigie as Mary Jane
- Donal Donnelly as Freddy Malins
- Colm Meaney as Mr. Bergin
- Rachael Dowling as Lily
- Marie Kean as Mrs. Malins
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A well-crafted miniature, this dramatization of the Joyce story directly addresses the theme of how the 'shades' from 'that other world' can still live in those who still walk the earth.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
A beguiling chamber piece.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh
That Huston should have dared search for the story's cinema life is astonishing. That he should have found it with such seeming ease is the mark of a master.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
There's a certain disarming sweetness to the film. The scenes are lit in amber warmth and Joyce's Dublin fable of lost hopes and living memories is treated with respect. But the acting pool is only adequate.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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