The Eclipse

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The Eclipse

R,

2010,

1h 28m,

Drama/

Mystery & Thriller

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77%

83 Reviews

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48%

1,000+ Ratings

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Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a widowed teacher living in an Irish seaside town, believes he has been seeing ghosts. Shaken but unsure, he volunteers at the town's yearly literary festival and is assigned to author Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle). Michael quickly falls for Lena who, it turns out, specializes in supernatural fiction. However, she is involved with someone else at the festival, married American writer Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn), and will not commit to Michael.

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Critics Consensus

An intriguingly unusual ghost story, Conor McPherson's Eclipse blends supernatural suspense with romance to create a satisfying, character-driven whole.

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Laura Kern

Film Comment Magazine

Jun 28, 2013

The Eclipse is wholly, if strangely, cinematic; its dream-like tonal and narrative unpredictability, interspersed with a few completely jarring horror-film moments, make for an experience that will, yes, haunt audiences for a long time to come.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Jan 3, 2011

The whole thing would probably have flown apart if not for Hinds, whose character, like a dark star imploding, pulls everything toward him.

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John Anderson

Variety

Jul 6, 2010

Quinn, alternately charming and loathsome, is brilliant, as is Hinds, an actor who has elevated everything he's been in.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Aug 22, 2023

3/4

Even if the plot is standard stuff, McPherson’s hushed, almost poetic treatment of the material has a way of getting under the skin and lasting long after the film has ended.

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Kevin Carr

Film School Rejects

Jul 31, 2012

2/5

When the ghost story moments are in the forefront, the film does manage a strong and creepy sense of foreboding.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 18, 2011

B

Quiet, subtle and tocuhing, this drama of a widower is extremely well acted by Hinds and Aidan Quinn

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Draco S

Jan 19, 2017

This was something I went into fairly blind, recording it off of our HDMovies channel just because it was a new film at the time, and I was pleased to have it be a decent watch when I finally got around to watching it. The supernatural elements are almost a distraction, if I'm being perfectly honest. The main story is about a love triangle that happens when a widower takes a shine to a writer of ghost stories when she appears at a local literary festival, and the rival author who also fancies her. The visions that our widower keeps having are startling and spooky, but they really of almost feel out of place in the face of the romance and drama. Give it a look, I'd be curious to hear other opinions, see if it worked better for others than it did for me.

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Han W

Sep 14, 2015

170127: A horror drama! A soft and gentle love story that will scare the shit out of you. A bit to close to home and caught me off guard on a Friday night alone. I regrettably kept turning up the volume up because I couldn't catch what was being said. Was that done intentionally? Perhaps I wouldn't have suffered so much if I could've found something other than Spanish subtitles. I like this film though I'm not sure I'll be able to watch it again.

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Hagrid S

Aug 13, 2012

Boring -- 86 minutes feels like an eternity

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Conor McPherson

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Ciarán Hinds

Michael Farr

Aidan Quinn

Nicholas Holden

Iben Hjejle

Lena Morelle

Jim Norton

Malachy McNeill

Eanna Hardwicke

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Synopsis

Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a widowed teacher living in an Irish seaside town, believes he has been seeing ghosts. Shaken but unsure, he volunteers at the town's yearly literary festival and is assigned to author Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle). Michael quickly falls for Lena who, it turns out, specializes in supernatural fiction. However, she is involved with someone else at the festival, married American writer Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn), and will not commit to Michael.

Director: Conor McPherson
Producer: Robert Walpole
Screenwriter: Conor McPherson, Billy Roche
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Treasure Entertainment, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, Irish Film Industry, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Rating: R (Some Disturbing Images|Language)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 26, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $132.4K
Runtime: 1h 28m

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