Dance First

Name: Dance First
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: August 9, 2024
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Aidan Gillen, Barry O'Connor, Bronagh Gallagher, Caroline Boulton, Fionn O'Shea

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: August 9, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Aidan Gillen, Barry O'Connor, Bronagh Gallagher, Caroline Boulton, Fionn O'Shea, Gabriel Byrne, Lisa Hogg, Maxine Peake, Rebecka Johnston, Robert Aramayo, Sandrine Bonnaire

Summary: Literary genius Samuel Beckett (Gabriel Byrne) 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.

Director: James Marsh

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Charles McNulty

Aug 9, 2024

The emotional acuity of a writer who felt things too deeply to stoop to cheap sentiment comes through. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Aug 6, 2024

Working from a script by Neil Forsythe, Marsh has created a superficially experimental if tame take on an artist of grim truths and dark comedy. Read full review

Screen Rant Stephen Holland

Aug 15, 2024

Dance First won’t strike a chord with everyone, but it's also not intended for mainstream appeal, and those who connect with it will do so deeply. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 30, 2024

Dance First isn’t exactly bad. It’s just too narrow in focus, too incomplete, a biopic that leaves us “waiting” for an elusive, mythic “author” to truly make his entrance. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Aug 9, 2024

It frequently seems that what the movie ultimately wants from Samuel Beckett is for him not to have been…well, Samuel Beckett. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Aug 8, 2024

The movie, written by Neil Forsyth, was surely intended as a tribute, but it plays more like an effort to reduce Beckett to easily comprehensible terms — the sort of terms he most likely would have resisted. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Nov 3, 2023

A lot gets packed in here, none of it good. Read full review

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