Product Details

• Actors: Fionnula Flanagan, Chris O'Neill, James E. O'Grady, Tony Lyons, Paddy Dawson
• Directors: Michael Pearce (II)
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Home Video
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2002
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300184285
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #24,027 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Customer Reviews

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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

By A Customer

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!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Andrea L. Engelmann - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, June 7, 2008

By	M. Shanahan - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I had a bit of a thing for reading Joyce in the early nineties, (my mother is Joy, my father James, so I actually am "James-Joy's"!, my Irish surname appears in the Wake as well) This came on tv late one night so of course I stayed up and watched it. This review is therefore flawed by being based on long ago memory, however what I do remember is that the short excerpt from Finnegans Wake (from the Anna Livia Plurabelle section) and the monologue that closes Ulysses (done really well) were genuine highpoints, and the most "real" despite being on the face of it the hardest to put on film. The parts depicting Joyce in person seemed the least real and most stylised, perhaps this contrast was intentional but it didn't work for me in terms of sitting down to watch a movie. The way the film is divided into sections which didn't seem tightly knit together is asking to be seen as "good in parts" perhaps. Other women from Joyce's fiction and his life are portrayed, including Bloom's interaction at a distance on the beach. For someone with a particular interest in Joyce and curious to see the monologue and a short snatch from the Wake it is worth a look.