71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Dance First

James Marsh
UK - Hungary - Belgium      100 m.
Closing film out of competition
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Literary genius Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, WWII Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, recluse. But despite all the adulation that came his, way he was a man acutely aware of his own failings. Titled after Beckett's famous ethos "Dance first, think later," the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.

Director
James Marsh (United Kingdom)
Screenplay
Neil Forsyth
Production
2LE Media (United Kingdom)
Michael Livingstone
2LE Media (United Kingdom)
Michael Livingstone
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Film Constellation (United Kingdom)
Distribution
Filmin (Spain)
Photography
Antonio Paladino
Edition
David Charap
Music
Sarah Bridge
Sound
Ben Baird
Cast
Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, Fionn O'Shea
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Running Time
100 m.
Original language of the film
English
Country
UK - Hungary - Belgium
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