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Dublin Film Festival Report: Ed Harris And Jessica Lange Receive The Event’s Top Honors
Dublin International Film Festival report: Ed Harris and Jessica Lange receive the event's top honors
From closer to home, director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Thomas Martin brought their cult Cannes hit The Surfer, and the UK’s Polly Steele came with Four Letters of Love starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan. Under the always assured stewardship of artistic Gráinne Humphreys, DIFF took a big swing by opening with The Return, Uberto Pasolini’s retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey, in the presence of star Ralph Fiennes, then still in the high heat of awards season for the Oscar-nominated Conclave. Jessica Lange, Harris’s co-star in the underrated 1985 Patsy Cline biopic Sweet Dreams, was similarly self-effacing in her masterclass, explaining how she was plucked from obscurity to make her debut in the 1976 blockbuster remake of King Kong.
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