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James Joyce's Women (1985)

James Joyce's Women poster
Directed by
Michael Pearce
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
R
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An actress plays the women in James Joyce's life and novels, including his wife Nora and characters from his books. It blends biography with scenes from Joyce's writing.

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What happens

James Joyce's Women, filmed in 1982 and 1983, is a 1985 released British/Irish period drama film produced by and starring Fionnula Flanagan as writer James Joyce's wife Nora and some of the real women in Joyce's life and fictional women from the writer's novels. The film is based on Flanagan's 1977 play James Joyce's Women. Flanagan had a role in the 1967 film Ulysses. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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