Nora

Nora - 2000 | 106 mins | Drama | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Pat Murphy.
Producer: Bradley Adams, Damon Bryant, Tracy Seaward and Tiernan Macbride.
Script: Pat Murphy and Gerard Stembridge. (from the biography by Brenda Maddox)
Cinematography: Jean Francois Robin.
Editing: Pia De Ciaula.
Art Direction: Martin Goulding, Stefano Maria Ortolani and Ulrich Schroder.
Production Design: Alan MacDonald.
Costume Design: Consolata Boyle.
Make-up Department: Maire O'Sullivan.
Sound: Peter Lindsay.
Original Music: Stanislas Syrewicz.

The Cast

Ewan McGregor - James Joyce
Susan Lynch - Nora Barnacle
Peter McDonald - Stanislas Joyce
Roberto Citran - Roberto Prezioso
Andrew Scott - Michael Bodkin

Plot Synopsis

This tepid but informed biopic of James Joyce (Ewan McGregor) tells of his tempestuous, yet inspirational love affair with his lifelong love and muse Nora Barnacle (Susan Lynch). In 1904, in true Nora Barnacle spirit, she left Dublin with a man she hardly even knew, to set out on a European adventure. By March 1905 the lovers had set up home in Trieste, where Joyce was offered a position with the Berlitz School. During the next ten years, the couple had many high points, many low points and two children. Those years are charted in Pat Murphy’s haunting and revealing screen adaptation, Nora.