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The Eclipse
Directed by
Conor McPherson
R
2009
88m
Drama
,
Romance
,
and more
6.0
76%
49%
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In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.
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Cast of The Eclipse
Ciarán Hinds
Michael Farr
Iben Hjejle
Lena Morelle
Aidan Quinn
Nicholas Holden
Jim Norton
Malachy
Éanna Hardwicke
Thomas Farr
Valerie Spelman
Jenny Sewell
Billy Roche
Jim Belton
Donncha Crowley
Writer
Casper Christensen
Writer
Jean Law
Susan Holden
Conor McPherson
Director / Writer
Billy Roche
Writer
Robert Walpole
Producer
The Eclipse Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Laura Kern
The Eclipse is wholly, if strangely, cinematic; its dream-like tonal and narrative unpredictability, interspersed with a few completely jarring horror-film moments, make for an experience that will, yes, haunt audiences for a long time to come.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The whole thing would probably have flown apart if not for Hinds, whose character, like a dark star imploding, pulls everything toward him.
Variety
John Anderson
Quinn, alternately charming and loathsome, is brilliant, as is Hinds, an actor who has elevated everything he's been in.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
McPherson brews a strangely appealing composite, a movie that is mostly character-driven romance but that seasons the proceedings with timely scare-your-pants-off moments of horror.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
In his quiet house hung with portraits of those who have become ghosts, Michael finally learns to mourn, and we realize that storytelling is how a writer grieves.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The town and surrounding landscapes make a gorgeous setting -- the Irish tourist board will be happy -- but at its heart The Eclipse is a small, contained ghost story about a haunted man learning to exorcise himself.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
Worth a look if just for the fact that it's such a rarity in the horror world to see a script that takes its characters and its concepts seriously.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The supernatural never seems far out of sight in Ireland, and it creeps in here and there during The Eclipse, a dark romance set at a literary festival in the County Cork cathedral town of Cobh. I'm not sure it's required, but it does little harm.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
McPherson has managed a rare hat trick in genre mash-up, fashioning a deeply absorbing movie that balances horror, romance, comedy and observant humanism with surprising finesse.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
There are few surprises hidden in the film's hushed spookiness.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A smart, scary, spine-tinglingly matter-of-fact ghost story.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
An interesting blend of very nicely observed character based drama with some horror movie effects.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Makes good on its name by sometimes obscuring its themes and even point, which can have its charms though also severe drawbacks.
Beliefnet
Nell Minow
The story explores the prism of liminality. It is not just the ghosts who are stuck between worlds.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
McPherson balances these disparate elements with great skill, never resorting to cheap scare tactics in what amounts to a sensitive character study.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A leisurely and quite lovely drama that honors the conventions of gothic ghost stories without the slightest stain of self-irony.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The Eclipse is about death and sadness, rebirth and possibility. The film is anchored by Hinds' performance -- the actor brings a soulful melancholy to the proceedings.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The Eclipse finds plenty of heartfelt gravity in its tale of love lost and found on a gothic coast.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Though The Eclipse travels a sleepy route to a shrug of anticlimax, it's refreshing to see a film acknowledge that life and love don't end at 50, even in the outsized shadow of a soulmate's death.
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