• Starring: Aidan Quinn, Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle
  • Summary: Michael Farr is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle, an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own—she’s being jealously pursued by a self-obsessed novelist, her one-time lover. As the three adults’ lives converge, the turbulence of the phantom world will soon have nothing on that of the living. (Magnolia) Expand
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  1. Hinds has been ready for a role of this size and shape for years; it was simply a matter of finding it, and its finding him.
  2. What holds The Eclipse together is Hinds' sorrowful and moving performance as a man haunted in more ways than one.
  3. The actors - including Aidan Quinn as Lena's lover - work hard to balance a mood that fluctuates between stillness and stagnancy.

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  1. A sleepy assault on the sixth sense, ambiently atmospheric with just the right blend of stagecraft and cinematics. The themes of loneliness and fear are combined with visceral horror though the tone of the film is unassuming and humble. Psychological instability is examined, our hero is a man unfulfilled with an empty soul who shares his thoughts with a soundtrack of reverberated pianos and domestic silences. Simply respectful, with an artistic awareness of death that feels uniquely Irish in a romantic sense. Expand
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