What perversity drives filmmakers to beach themselves on the shores of unfilmable novels, books in which verbal virtuosity and interior monologue take precedence over narrative incident and externalized character development? Producer-director Sean Walsh's 10-year quest to bring James Joyce's monumentally complex
Ulysses to the screen is admirable, but the result — which opened on the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday — is watchable, if not particularly cinematic, and faithful without actually evoking the uniquely literary qualities that have seduced generations of readers. The story unfolds over the course of a single day in Dublin, June 16, 1904, almost entirel...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
113 mins