First dance, then think: the film review

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PRHYME DANCE, THEN THINK. FINDING BECKETT
Type: biographical ✦✦ 1/2
Direction: James Marsh. With Gabriel Byrne, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fionn O’Shea, Maxine Peake

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“Nothing happens! It’s a masterpiece” says the literary critics. “Nothing happens twice,” replies Samuel Beckett.

First dance, then thinkthe audacious and surreal biography of the Irish playwright, a minimalist and therefore not very cinematic author, starts from an escape that never happened (from the Nobel ceremony) and from the meeting with another himself (again Gabriel Byrne, a joy to behold) which leads to the re-enactment of the salient (and painful) encounters of his life.

Fionn O’Shea is young Beckett (photo by Kata Vermes).

The contrast between the inaction at the heart of his work and the adventurous chapter of militancy in the French resistance is effectivebut it is the conflicted relationship with James Joyce, here a terrible manipulator, that causes a shiver.
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✦✦✦✦ masterpiece

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