Irish Film: Four images for John Crowley’s Brooklyn

One of the most eagerly anticipated Irish films out in 2015 is John Crowley’s drama Brooklyn, which will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next week, with 6 screenings from Monday.

The story is set in the 1950s, and sees a young woman move from a small town in Ireland to Brooklyn, where she has the opportunity for work, for a future and for love.

The film is an adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s best-selling novel by the equally best-selling British author Nick Hornby. Intermission director John Crowley has gathered an all-star Irish and British cast for the film, that features Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, and Julie Walters.

Brooklyn is an Irish/British co-production from Wildgaze Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, Parallel Films and Item 7. Brooklyn was co-financed by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board and filmed on location in Wexford, Dublin and Wicklow, before the film decamped to Canada to shoot in Montreal.

Screening out of competition in the Premieres section of the festival, Brooklyn joins four other IFB funded productions and co-productions at the festival, Glassland, The Hallow, Strangerland and The Visit.