Ryan's Daughter

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Mar 18, 2019 The curse and blessing of creating legendary art like Lawrence of Arabia and Brief Encounter puts a rather large target on your back. When your work falls short of the aforementioned High Bar the daggers come out. Yes, maybe it could have been cut back a bit...Yes, maybe at times it dragged. But the Zeitgeist of this film captured me wholly and took me in many powerful directions. I cared for the characters and the story. The physical beauty of the film is a given. That is the obvious point whith which all seem to agree.....But the internal struggle of the protagonists is as violent as the waves. And the emotional claustrophobia of the characters is a suitable and paradoxical counterweight to the endless expanse of Western ireland and the North Sea. No, it is not Zhivago or Kwai.....But it is powerful and wonderful and heartbreaking nevertheless. It is Lean. See more

Feb 2, 2019 The best movie score ever composed!

Hagrid W Jan 23, 2019 Visually stunning and wholly entertaining. Robert Mitchem, playing against type , shows he can really act!

Hagrid S May 4, 2018 Overlong by about an hour, which slows its pacing. It gives an 'epic' promise by possessing such a long play length, but its greatest weakness -- and my only complaint -- is its failure to live up to this 'epic' promise BECAUSE it possesses such a long play length. Otherwise, I would give this another star, because ALL that is here is brilliant. See more

Harry W Apr 21, 2017 A very flawed film, but NOT the disaster it was made out to be. It is also a beautiful film with some of Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles and Trevor Howard's best performances. The size is too much, and it goes on too long... yes... but it is still a great and impressive film. I think the real problem is in the fact that it is not a love story about Rosy and Major Doryan, but about Rosy and Charles (Mitchum). The problem is that there is nothing between Rosy and Doryan other than a few hot sexual meetings. How can the audience be expected to think of this as a 'love story' when there is only one scene when Rosy and Doryan actually speak to each other? And that scene is before they start having sex. The only reason she continues to act so foolishly is for an orgasm. Do we really believe that this woman would leave her husband's bed in the middle of the night, run off to have sex with the major, and scamper back into bed without her husband waking up and knowing she's gone? There is no actual relationship that develops between Rosy and Doryan, at least not that the audience sees. I totally understand her having a affair for great sex. But it would have been truly moving if we saw more to their 'relationship'. The triumph in all this is that Charles stays by her side. THAT is the love story in this. Father Hugh (Trevor Howard, who really should have gotten the Oscar, not John Mills), tells them as much at the end. I understand they could only do so much with Major Doryan, as they contracted to use the horrible Christopher Jones, and were stuck with his limitations. If only it could have been Terrence Stamp, David Hemmings, Michael York instead. See more

Luke W Aug 25, 2016 A grossly underrated Epic set on the Coast of Ireland during the late 1910's. Filled with terrific scope & some of the most stunning cinematography capturing shots that stay in your mind long after the film. The story of Rosie Ryan a beautiful & headstrong Irish Girl who falls in love with straight & somewhat dull school teacher played by the unlikely Robert Mitchum. However a mysterious British Soldier appear & sparks fly & begins an illicit affair. Although running around 3 hours & 20 mins the film tells the story so simply & effectively you loose track of its length. It was sad to hear the critics rubbished the film but that thankfully didn't effect Box Office. See more

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