*** - This Irish-made film stars Ciaran Hinds (Julius Caeser from HBO’s “Rome” series) as a widower of indeterminate employment (apparently alternating between teacher, writer, chauffeur, editor, publicist and handyman within the film’s 88 minutes) who chases around some English ghost story writing broad, and occasionally sees an actual ghost or two himself. This is billed as a thriller, but that is fairly inaccurate. It is, unfortunately, more of a romantic drama punctuated every 15 or so minutes with some sort of shocking image that is supposed to keep the atmospheric tension ratcheted up. I guess it is fairly successful in doing so, but there isn’t really a whole lot of story, and whether or not these supposed ‘ghosts’ that are popping up every once in a while are real or a dream of some sort is never revealed. The movie looks great, though. The lovely Irish countryside backdrop, vivid and clear cinematography and interesting camera work all come together in tandem to make this a practical visual feast. Still, that can really only take a movie so far. It would have been nice to have some sort of plot to follow other than bird chasing and the Aidan Quinn character’s continual drunkenness.
The Eclipse
*** - This Irish-made film stars Ciaran Hinds (Julius Caeser from HBO’s “Rome” series) as a widower of indeterminate employment (apparently alternating between teacher, writer, chauffeur, editor, publicist and handyman within the film’s 88 minutes) who chases around some English ghost story writing broad, and occasionally sees an actual ghost or two himself. This is billed as a thriller, but that is fairly inaccurate. It is, unfortunately, more of a romantic drama punctuated every 15 or so minutes with some sort of shocking image that is supposed to keep the atmospheric tension ratcheted up. I guess it is fairly successful in doing so, but there isn’t really a whole lot of story, and whether or not these supposed ‘ghosts’ that are popping up every once in a while are real or a dream of some sort is never revealed. The movie looks great, though. The lovely Irish countryside backdrop, vivid and clear cinematography and interesting camera work all come together in tandem to make this a practical visual feast. Still, that can really only take a movie so far. It would have been nice to have some sort of plot to follow other than bird chasing and the Aidan Quinn character’s continual drunkenness.
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