![]() He sees Michael as a celebrity stalker whose intrusions threaten his own plans. ![]() It’s made far more difficult, though, by the presence of another author-the festival’s star, American Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn), an arrogant drunk who persuaded Lena to attend the fete in hopes of following up an earlier one-night stand (which she regrets) with something more permanent, even though he’s married. And over the course of a few days, their relationship blossoms into a real friendship. So when Michael is assigned to drive one of the festival’s authors, Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle) to and from events, he takes the opportunity to ask her, since she writes about ghosts and paranormal phenomena, about his own unsettling experiences. ![]() And he still takes the time to serve as a volunteer chauffeur for the writers who attend the town’s annual literary festival, partially at least because he once had aspirations to write himself, but also as a way of momentarily forgetting his loss.īut he can’t escape his intense sadness, especially because he may be being haunted not only by the memory of his wife, but by the spirit of his father-in-law Malachy (Jim Norton), who though still alive is housed, unhappily, in a nursing home. Still mourning the death of his wife, he’s doing his best to raise his two children, Sarah (Hannah Lynch) and Thomas (Eanna Hardwicke), in their drafty old house. Based on the stories of Billy Roche (who also appears in the picture as well as co-authoring the screenplay with director Conor McPherson), it’s a moodily evocative, quietly unnerving little tale of the pain of loss and the struggle to come to terms with grief.Ĭiaran Hines plays Michael Farr, a woodshop teacher in the seaside town of Cobh in Ireland’s County Cork. Movies sometimes give us satisfyingly literate ghost stories-“The Haunting,” certainly, and “The Sixth Sense” and “The Others” are examples-and “The Eclipse” fits nicely into that tradition.
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