'Brooklyn': Through the blue door . . . .

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When Saoirse Ronan heard those words from the immigration officer she knew she had made it to America from her beloved Ireland. We begin in 1950 when Ireland still operated as if it were a hundred years behind and Young Ellis wanted more out of life than small town Ireland. Her local priest made arrangements through the church and she was received by Broadbent the ever wise and kind Brooklyn priest. She was put in a boarding house with other Irish girls who were lorded over by the Irish owner and mother to them all. Those evening meals provide quite a bit of humor by not nearly as much as Ellis' first trip to her first fella's home for supper with a large, boisterous Italian family with an eight year old brother who never runs short of the wrong words and ideas.

Ellis is stricken with home sickness, falls in love, gets quietly married, and suddenly loses a family member that requires her to boat back to Ireland. While there she is pursued the by the local catch and fights succumbing to his Irish gentlemen ways.

I don't have to read the book to know this is a great adaptation. The story flows and Ronan plays it down low as shy Irish lass coming to the new world. There are a lot of laughs and some tears and it makes you think about how our fore-bearers felt coming from their European roots to be here in a land of limitless possibilities.

This is a date flick and the old ball-and-chain will require an extra hanky just in case. Unless she is overtaken by the beauty of it all: art direction, costume, locations . . . a typically beautiful film from GB.

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Topic - 'Brooklyn': Through the blue door . . . . - Billy Wonka 18:01:33 11/28/15 (6)

Classic, beautiful look and feel... the Irish break my heart... - musetap 13:33:31 11/29/15 (0)

Spousal Unit wants to see this one. Thinks there's parallel development to her Brooklyn Italian roots. - free.ranger 06:32:10 11/29/15 (0)

RE: 'Brooklyn': Through the blue door . . . . - mkuller 23:06:08 11/28/15 (3)

Ronan showed promise as a great with her teen work . . . - Billy Wonka 09:38:03 11/29/15 (2)

And Hanna...(nt) - mkuller 11:21:06 11/29/15 (1)

She's an action star, too! She does it all . . . - Billy Wonka 12:28:18 11/29/15 (0)

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