James Joyce's Women

James Joyce's Women

88 mins | Drama | Sept. 13, 1985

In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora remembering their time together, Flanagan captures the era and the author in lyrical detail. As Sylvia Beach, the woman who first published Ulysses, new dimensions concerning the importance of Nora in Joyce's literary visions of women emerge, and when Flanagan interprets Joyce characters like Molly Bloom or a washerwoman from Finnegan's Wake, the beauty of Joyce's language shines through the melodious words.

James Joyce's Women

88 mins | Drama | Sept. 13, 1985

James Joyce's Women
In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora remembering their time together, Flanagan captures the era and the author in lyrical detail. As Sylvia Beach, the woman who first published Ulysses, new dimensions concerning the importance of Nora in Joyce's literary visions of women emerge, and when Flanagan interprets Joyce characters like Molly Bloom or a washerwoman from Finnegan's Wake, the beauty of Joyce's language shines through the melodious words.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers
Original title James Joyce's Women
Directors Michael Pearce
Writers James Joyce

Cast

Fionnula Flanagan

as Harriet Shaw Weaver

Chris O'Neill

as James Joyce

James E. O'Grady

as The Interviewer

Tony Lyons

as Leopold Bloom

Paddy Dawson

as Stannie Joyce