Nora (film)

Nora
DVD cover
Directed by	Pat Murphy
Produced by	Bradley Adams Damon Bryant Tracey Seaward
Written by	Gerard Stembridge Pat Murphy
Starring	Susan Lynch Ewan McGregor
Music by	Stanislas Syrewicz
Cinematography	Jean-François Robin
Editing by	Pia Di Ciaula
Release date(s)	April 21, 2000 (2000-04-21) (Ireland) May 19, 2000 (2000-05-19) (United Kingdom)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Germany Italy Ireland United Kingdom
Language	English

Nora is a 2000 film directed by Pat Murphy about Nora Barnacle and her husband, Irish author James Joyce. It stars Ewan McGregor as Joyce and Susan Lynch as the title character of Nora Barnacle.

Cast

Actor	Role
Susan Lynch	Nora Barnacle
Ewan McGregor	James Joyce
Andrew Scott	Michael Bodkin
Peter McDonald	Stanislaus Joyce
Roberto Citran	Roberto Prezioso
Vinnie McCabe	Uncle Tommy
Veronica Duffy	Annie Barnacle
Pauline McLynn	Miss Kennedy
Aedin Moloney	Eva Joyce

Plot

Dublin, 1904. Walking down Dublin's Nassau Street, James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle, a young and attractive woman from Galway. Joyce, immediately in love with the young woman, offers to 'show her the city'. Nora coldly states that she has to work. The film then proceeds to examine the relationship between Joyce and Barnacle. We witness the good times and the bad times, the birth and growth of their two children (Giorgio and Lucia) and how Joyce battles with his publishers and, indeed, the censors over his first published work, Dubliners.

Closing quote

“

Dubliners was finally published in 1914. James Joyce is recognised as one of the world's great writers. He and Nora spent the rest of their lives together.

”

Awards

Won

• Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film (2000): Best Actress - Susan Lynch
• Irish Film and Television Awards (2000): IFTA Award Best Actress - Susan Lynch

Nominated

• Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film (2000): Best Film - Pat Murphy
• Irish Film and Television Awards (2000): IFTA Award Best Actor - Ewan McGregor
• Irish Film and Television Awards (2000): IFTA Award Best Craft Achievement - Consolata Boyle (costume design)
• Irish Film and Television Awards (2000): IFTA Award Best Craft Achievement - Jean-François Robin (cinematography)
• Irish Film and Television Awards (2000): IFTA Award Best Feature Film
• Irish Film and Television Awards (2000): IFTA Award Best Screenplay Pat Murphy and Gerard Stembridge
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2000): Crystal Globe - Pat Murphy

External links

• Nora at the Internet Movie Database