The Eclipse Receives Critical Acclaim Following World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
"A film of such seductive grace, humor and startling side trips into buttocks-clenching ghastliness" (Variety), "excellent" and "beautifully acted" (New York Times), "really strong" (Screen International), "a keeper" (Rolling Stone) and "genuinely engrossing and emotionally satisfying" (The L Magazine) are just some of the rave reviews Conor McPherson's THE ECLIPSE has been receiving since it's world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last week.Written by McPherson and Billy Roche the supernatural drama screened as part of the World Narrative Feature Competition category during the 12-day festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro and was seen as many as a very strong contender.
The New York Times said the film was one of the four strongest candidates in competition, the Associated Press highlighted it as one of three films in competition "worthy of attention", the New York Magazine said that it was the best competition film reviewed this year while the Village Voice said it was the best film in the festival so far.
THE ECLIPSE tells the story about a widower (Ciarán Hinds) who is haunted by nightmarish visions. When he volunteers at an international literary festival, his life converges with a beautiful author of supernatural fiction (Iben Hjejle) and a self obsessed novelist (Aidan Quinn) drawing them into a life-altering collision between the living and the dead. The acting in the film has been applauded with Variety describing both Quinn and Hinds's performances as "brilliant" and the Village Voice saying "the acting was just superb".
Produced by Rob Walpole for Treasure Entertainment with funding from Bord Scannán na hEireann/ the Irish Film Board, RTE and BCI, The Eclipse shot on location in Cobh, Co. Cork last September. Sales for THE ECLIPSE are now being handled by Submarine.