Pros: Lovely shots of the Irish countryside. Cons: Plot, dialogue, characterization--or rather lack thereof.
As nearly as I can tell, Dancing at Lughnasa is meant to be a heartwarming portrait of life in a small Irish village in a time of profound social and economic change. Unfortunately, it has no heart and no capacity for warmth and fails to take or...
Pros: The characters are works of art. Cons: Slow pace. Deep.
Life is hard in Ireland in 1936. Seven-year-old Michael looks back at this last summer before everything changes for his family of five unmarried sisters including his mother and four aunts who all dote on this love child.
Pros: Streep is just one member of a stellar cast Cons: A uneven pace and downer ending mar the overall impact
Stop the presses! "Dancing at Lughnasa" is a movie in which Meryl Streep, the Greatest Actress of the Millennium, does not out-distance the rest of the film’s players.
In this Irish slice-of-life, Streep is very, very good. But so...
Pros: Brian Friel's acclaimed Irish play translated to the screen, plus Meryl Streep Cons: It's more cerebral than cinematic - and definitely a chick's flick
Give two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep a juicy role with a foreign accent and, once again, she delivers the goods. In this screen adaptation of Brian Friel's Irish play about five unmarried sisters living in Donegal in 1936, she plays the...
Pros: Powerful Performances Cons: I wish it didnt end
I went to 'Dancing At Lughnasa' (pronounced 'Lou-na-sa') because being Irish I was familiar with the Brian Friel play of the same name which debuted several years ago. Going in to the movie I expected a good movie but what I witnessed was a truly...
Pros: acting, cinematography, story Cons: will be hard to get a guy to watch with you
While I agree with a great deal of Grouch's review of Dancing at Lughnasa - and won't bore with repetition, I want to respond to the criticism of its ending being abrupt and depressing. And recommend the movie.
Pros: Streep's performance is richly textured and sublime. Beautifully filmed. Cons: A bit slow feeling.
DANCING AT LUGHNASA: Drama. Meryl Streep’s richly textured and sublime performance as Kate Mundy, a repressed and morally upright school teacher in director Pat O'Connor’s (“Circle of Friends”) “Dancing at Lughnasa (pronounced LOOnasa), leaves little...
Pros: Meryl Streep Cons: just about everything else
This film does not compare to the heart-rending play by Brian Friel which it is based on. The scenes have been moved around and new characters have been introduced which prevents the audience from getting to know the five Mundy sisters as they do on the...
A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. Their lives are in...More at Family Video
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