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Dance First

Opens on August 9

Director: James Marsh Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 2023

Starring: Aidan Gillen, Fionn O'Shea, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Sandrine Bonnaire

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.

“Byrne is rather good in the role, his rueful, craggy face a battleground for a war between Beckett’s self-regard and his self-loathing.” ~ Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)

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