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- 2017
- Monument Releasing
- 1 h 34 m
- 2017
- Monument Releasing
- 1 h 34 m
Summary A teenage girl runs away from a foster home with the boy who loves her. She searches for her visionary writer father who is locked up in a psychiatric institution. It is a story of redemption.
Directed By: Simon Fitzmaurice
Written By: Simon Fitzmaurice
- 2017
- Monument Releasing
- 1 h 34 m
- 2017
- Monument Releasing
- 1 h 34 m
My Name Is Emily
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Summary A teenage girl runs away from a foster home with the boy who loves her. She searches for her visionary writer father who is locked up in a psychiatric institution. It is a story of redemption.
Directed By: Simon Fitzmaurice
Written By: Simon Fitzmaurice
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
55
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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My Name Is Emily gets lighter as it goes along, releasing tension and pretension for a pleasant, routine ride.
The winsome Lynch, narrating her story and irresistibly (to Auden) poker-faced in her dealings with the outside world, makes a heroine worth knowing and following to the ends of Ireland, with or without a wand.
While its narrative elements threaten at times to descend from whimsical into hopelessly twee, My Name Is Emily ultimately finds a proper, if not particularly compelling, balance.
It’s a sometimes rocky road cinematically, slipping from enchanting to trite, magical to indulgent with some regularity.
The best thing about Emily is that she’s played by Evanna Lynch. Lynch, who played the charmingly abstracted Luna Lovegood in some of the Harry Potter pictures, has grown into a young woman who looks like a rougher-edged Saoirse Ronan.
the film thrums with an urgency that’s both asset and liability, at once invested with deep feeling and undone by a barrage of flashbacks, allusions, and counterintuitive bits of wisdom.
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Production Company
Newgrange Pictures,
Kennedy Films,
Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board,
Film i Väst,
Garagefilm International,
Paradox
Release Date Feb 17, 2017
Duration 1 h 34 m
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Awards
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 7 Nominations
Victoria TX Indie Film Fest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Dublin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
