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JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014AMERICAN AIRLINES GALASATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY‘BAFTA-laureate Fox and Oscar-winner Frickerprovide a delightful study in chalk-cheesecompanionship’ The Hollywood ReporterA LONG WAY FROM HOMESat 15 Feb / Savoy 2 / 7.30pm / 80 minutesWriter-director: Virginia Gilbert 2013 UK/FranceCast: James Fox, Natalie Dormer, Brenda FrickerIf the central couple in Rossellini’s Voyage to Italyhad grown old together they might have wound upas Joseph and Brenda in A Long Way From Home.Writer-director Virginia Gilbert has adapted her ownshort story into a film that gives James Fox his mostsubstantial role in years.After fifty years together, Joseph (Fox) and Brenda(Brenda Fricker) have retired to southern France.They have become the old couple in a restaurantwho have nothing left to say to one another. Brendaseems frail and increasingly forgetful but Joseph isstill full of vitality. When they meet young holidaycouple Suzanne (Natalie Dormer) and Mark (PaulNicholls), Joseph is instantly smitten and pursues herto the point of foolishness.Fox is very adept at conveying the subtle shift ofmoods in a man wearily resigned to the unvaryingroutine of his life but briefly persuaded that thingscould be very different. A radiant Natalie Dormeris equally convincing as a woman not entirelyconvinced that her future lies with her boyfriend.Allan HunterScreen InternationalWith special guests James Fox, Brenda Fricker andVirginia GilbertBOOK ONLINE AT JDIFF.COM 39