
Fathers and sons and lovers. June, 1904. Leopold Bloom, Dublin Jew and cuckold, attends a funeral, recalls his infant son dead 11 years, faces an anti-Semite at a pub, has a phantasmagoric dream while at a brothel, feeds a drunken young poet Stephen Dedalus, bonds briefly with Stephen as if father and son, and gets into bed next to his wife Molly. Stephen spends his day teaching, talking about literature with pals, pondering Shakespeare and "Hamlet" and fatherhood, brooding o... (Full plot summary below)
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Fathers and sons and lovers. June, 1904. Leopold Bloom, Dublin Jew and cuckold, attends a funeral, recalls his infant son dead 11 years, faces an anti-Semite at a pub, has a phantasmagoric dream while at a brothel, feeds a drunken young poet Stephen Dedalus, bonds briefly with Stephen as if father and son, and gets into bed next to his wife Molly. Stephen spends his day teaching, talking about literature with pals, pondering Shakespeare and "Hamlet" and fatherhood, brooding on his dead mother, drinking too much, and accepting Bloom's hand. Molly, lusty Molly, recalls vividly her courtship and affirmation of Bloom. Homer's "Odyssey" provides the story's structure.
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| Filmcritic.comJeremiah Kipponly succeeds in simplifying Ulysses, not extracting meaning or emotion from it |
| User ReviewOrly TWhat can i say??? An excellent adaptation that can confuse, amaze and astound just as well as the book. It can take a few re-watches to fully understand it if you have not read the book......or even you have read it but didn't understand it! An excellent companion to Joseph Stricks version starring Milo O'shea!! 10/10 |
| User ReviewNed FThose who do not believe this is about as good a representation of what was actually in Ulysses as can be done did not take the time to actually read and understand what was being depicted by Joyce. From the taking of a dump in the outhouse, to Molly's saying she wants a tongue up her bum, to Bloom's masturbation watching a young girls taunting on a beach, they are RIGHT OUT OF THE BOOK. You cannot say you love th e book but don't like what was in it! That said, they are but scenes where much more is being said and treated that just the action. It is remarkable to go through an entire book with growing hatred of Mollly only to arrive at the Penelope scene and be confronted with the "other side". That is done quite well in this movie. Devlin did a good job directing and Rea was brilliant as the almost affectless Bloom. If you like Ulysses, you should like the movie. End of story. |
| User ReviewLeif ENot even close to the book, still a very good film |
| User ReviewPrivate UThis is a reasonable film, but not exactly my cup of tea. |
| User ReviewAndrew MThis film is interesting in that it brings the plot of the complicated novelto the screen rather than the effects it uses. However the poor production and Angeline Ball's OTT slutty performance as Molly let the film down. |
| User ReviewChristine BI haven't actually read Ulysses (yet) so I didn't know how much of the movie is faithful to the book but I have to say that this was not what I expected of the classic story! I had no idea it was so bawdy! This adaptation by Sean Walsh was often slow moving and a little hard to follow but certainly interesting and colourful, if not a tad surreal. Stephen Rea, Angeline Ball and Hugh O'Conor all gave great performances and I loved the scenery (it's Ireland after all), but I will probably have to watch it again and read the book finally to get more out of it. |
| User ReviewDavid HThe characters from Joyce's Ulysses are personified in this film. My sentence-long summary of the film is as it is because the film is so loosely based on Joyce's book that it's hard to call this an adaptation; the characters have the same names and act vaguely like the book's characters, a few of the events are the same, but there are a lot of liberties taken. With a book like , which is the pinnacle of modernism, this is understandable, and in fact, I think Bloom is a very good attempt at an impossible task. The voice overs, which usually amount to lazy story-telling, are appropriate, even though they get somewhat overlong and overbearing, and Angeline Ball is exactly how I imagined Molly Bloom when I read the book so many years ago. The film's problem is that while it presents these characters, there are no specific goals, no central conflicts, nothing to drive the plot forward. To some degree this comes with the modernist territory, but Joyce's book found little steps to push along the narrative, and the film's focus remains lost. Overall, is a valiant attempt, but it's no substitute for or even imitation of its source material. |
| User ReviewForrest A:o So boring, Seemed endless. Downright weird at times. i could not get into this film at all. |
| User ReviewLee MIf nothing else, you've got to admire Irish writer/producer Sean Walsh for daring to bring James Joyce's hugely dense epic Ulysses to the silver screen. Unfortunately the behemoth of a book proves just, well, too big |