Product Details

• Actors: Fionnula Flanagan, Chris O'Neill, James E. O'Grady, Tony Lyons, Paddy Dawson
• Directors: Michael Pearce
• Writers: James Joyce
• Producers: Fionnula Flanagan, Garrett O'Conner
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios Ho
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2002
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300184285
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,411 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Original and Fantastic- suppliment to Joyce's stu, November 5, 1999

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This review is from: James Joyce's Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I once took a course on Joyce, this adds so much insight. The acting, directing and the research that went into this was supurb. I am far from knowing Joyce, but this is an educational, personal and just an incrediable video!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Joyce is pretty hot stuff!", October 11, 2009

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This review is from: James Joyce's Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

... to quote Sally Kellerman, Rodney Dangerfield's lit professor in "Back to School." Fionnula Flanagan's 1983 film is certainly entertaining, but is also an important piece of Joyce scholarship and interpretation. While I quarrel with her presentation of "Anna Livia Plurabelle" (instead of two gossipy washerwomen, one on each bank of the river, she's got three on the same side), her rendering of Molly Bloom is incomparable. Searingly lyrical and passionate, Flanagan reveals in the great hymn to earthly joy all of Molly's pent-up sorrow and anger at her husband's neglect. The complex, contradictory blend of emotions, all at white heat, is just as Joyce intended and sends us back to the pages of Ulysses with greater appreciation. Well done!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JAMES JOYCE'S WOMEN, January 9, 2004

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This review is from: James Joyce's Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A superb, informative film. Strong performance by Fionnula Flanagan who portrays six women in the film. Beautifully done.