The eclipse

THE ECLIPSE is an exquisitely crafted supernatural drama from Tony Award-nominated Irish writer-director and playwright Conor McPherson (“Shining City,” “The Seafarer”). Ciarán Hinds (MUNICH, THERE WILL BE BLOOD), winner of the Best Actor award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for his performance, stars opposite Iben Hjejle (HIGH FIDELITY, MIFUNE) and Aidan Quinn (LEGENDS OF THE FALL, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE) in this engrossing story of love, loss and one man’s need to begin life again.

Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds he finds himself drawn to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own—she’s being jealously pursued by a self-obsessed novelist (Aidan Quinn), her one-time lover. As the three adults’ lives converge, the turbulence of the phantom world will soon have nothing on that of the living.

“Conor McPherson delivers a beautiful, even believable ghost drama that enraptures on many levels. [An] intriguing mix of engaging drama and wonderful dialogue, all infused with stirring hints of the supernatural.” – Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal Int’l

“A film of seductive grace, humor… Quinn, alternately charming and loathsome, is brilliant, as is Hinds, an actor who has elevated everything he's been in.” – John Anderson, Variety