Brooklyn
2015
***
Director: John Crowley
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Jessica Paré, Bríd Brennan, Fiona Glascott, Jane Brennan
In the early 1950s, a young Irish woman Eilis Lacey leaves her mother and sister behind and emigrates to Brooklyn, New York. Just when she is over her homesickness and begins to find her feet, she is forced to return home, where things are not as they were. This romantic coming-of-age story is likeable and well-acted, but its dramatic stakes are extremely low on both continents. Immigration stories traditionally depict hardship, but Eilis deals purely with first world problems. Visually, John Crowley's film looks like a cheap TV production. Nick Hornby scripted from Colm Tóibín's 2009 novel.
