I am adding reviews for all films I've seen that currently lack one, here goes....'Dull film in which a Dublin medical student visits the Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, he falls for a local girl who is promised to a local lad, so he returns to his medical studies, but can't forget the girl; a dull film!' This recently turned up on satellite channel Talking Pictures, It ticks a lot of boxes for me, I like old British and Irish films from the 60's back, and this features what for me is local geography, I live within 20 miles of the featured Island, so I doubt if most viewers will be as forgiving as I have been, incidentally the Blaskets were abandoned 15 years after this was filmed.
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Amateurish time filler
malcolmgsw31 December 2015
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Made by a company who only made one film,this has got to be one of the most amateurish not to say boring films I have seen in a long time.A ..substantial proportion of this film is taken up with views of the
scenery,scenes of i.e. going to sea in boats and an interminable amount of singing and dancing.The story concerns a young doctor who comes to the island on holiday and becomes besotted with the lifestyle and local girl Eileen.That provides a problem because she is betrothed to Liam.The doctor won't tell him so Eileen does.The doctor resolves to leave the island after one last fishing trip.On this trip Liam slips or falls into the sea.He is saved but dies subsequently,so the way is free for the pair to get married
scenery,scenes of i.e. going to sea in boats and an interminable amount of singing and dancing.The story concerns a young doctor who comes to the island on holiday and becomes besotted with the lifestyle and local girl Eileen.That provides a problem because she is betrothed to Liam.The doctor won't tell him so Eileen does.The doctor resolves to leave the island after one last fishing trip.On this trip Liam slips or falls into the sea.He is saved but dies subsequently,so the way is free for the pair to get married
Thank goodness this film was made.
ouzman-113 September 2018
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The film with its very shaky script is though a fine tribute to the Blasket Islands and its past people (that were to lose their idyll island status due to their dwindling numbers in the 1950s).
The plot is a love affair and the associated angst of a betrothed couple that whilst both admire the outsider is also an intruder into their plans to marry when the outsider falls in love with the betrothed spinner, Eileen.
It falls to the lovely Eileen to removes any doubt that she too has found a love for the outsider by telling the man she was to marry that she now has other plans, despite the outsider insisting he can never have her on any terms.
The stoic acceptance the three leads the film exploring the beauty of the island. Then the two suitors for Eileen's love go fishing where tragedy strikes (after what appears attempted murder) results in the outsider and Eileen's union... The End.
OK a shaky script but the opportunity for those of us that appreciate a nation's attempt to produce a film that pays homage to a declining way island life found at the time in Ireland and the British Isles.
Economic pressure destroyed such people and this film stands for the many that suffered eco-social decline. It stands alone as the only melodrama made in these beautiful islands. How could I score it any less?
Enchanting if you can suspend belief and the shaky film, cast and script.
The plot is a love affair and the associated angst of a betrothed couple that whilst both admire the outsider is also an intruder into their plans to marry when the outsider falls in love with the betrothed spinner, Eileen.
It falls to the lovely Eileen to removes any doubt that she too has found a love for the outsider by telling the man she was to marry that she now has other plans, despite the outsider insisting he can never have her on any terms.
The stoic acceptance the three leads the film exploring the beauty of the island. Then the two suitors for Eileen's love go fishing where tragedy strikes (after what appears attempted murder) results in the outsider and Eileen's union... The End.
OK a shaky script but the opportunity for those of us that appreciate a nation's attempt to produce a film that pays homage to a declining way island life found at the time in Ireland and the British Isles.
Economic pressure destroyed such people and this film stands for the many that suffered eco-social decline. It stands alone as the only melodrama made in these beautiful islands. How could I score it any less?
Enchanting if you can suspend belief and the shaky film, cast and script.
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