Reviews - Blossoming onto the silver
screen
By Grainne McLoughlin
Bloom
 With
St. Patrick’s Day on our doorstep, there should no better or more
cultured way to spend a few hours than watching Sean Walsh’s Bloom
— an award-winning film based on James Joyce’s Ulysees.
Starring Stephen Rea and Angeline Ball, Bloom opens at the Tricycle Cinema
on March 17 as a cornerstone of its Dublin St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
The tale of one day in the life of one city Bloom tells the touching love
story of Molly (Angeline Ball) and Leopold Bloom (Stephen Rea).
As Bloom sets out on a normal day of work and social activity across Edwardian
Dublin that seems to encompass just about every human activity, his path
crosses and re-crosses that of young poet Stephen Dedalus (Hugh O’Conor),
struggling to escape the influence of his dead mother and his rejecting
father and other forces of repression and convention.
After a long day and a drunken hallucinatory night, during which they
meet and return to Bloom’s place, Stephen finds in Bloom the father
figure and intellectual equal he seeks and Bloom a replacement for the
son he has lost, while
Stephen provides a new target for Molly’s desires.
It comes, surprising and hilarious, complete with all the taboo subjects
that shocked its first readers — fantasy sex, farting, defecation,
masturbation, racism, sado-masochism and transvestism — and suitably
outrageous performances by its leads Academy Award nominee Stephen Rea
and award-winning Commitments star Angeline Ball.
Screenings will be at London’s Tricycle Cinema on March 17 at
2.30pm, March 18 at 4pm and March 19 at 4pm.
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