Alicia I love this movie so much

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Dorothy_Langman The Eclipse. A very fine performance from Ciaran in this film. This is smart, scary and thought-provoking... Don't watch it on your own..you will 'jump' when you least expect it.Having viewed The Eclipse, I felt myself wanting to watch it again...There is so much' going on, which 'jolts' the viewer that you hardly have time to articulate what has occurred. Ciaran Hinds effectively gets 'inside' his character, Michael Farr, demonstrating his anguish, loss and vulnerability. The 'fight' scene with Aidan Quinn is brutal in its' exposition with Ciaran 'holding back' and then 'letting go' and is perhaps a metaphor for much of what is happening in the story. We see Farr 'on a journey', culminating in a possible new connection/relationship? Yet, had resolution occurred? The viewer has to seperate reality from imagination. Has Farr's grief pushed him to the edge? Is what he is 'seeing' real or locked in his psyche? This is a thought provoking film which makes you consider the possibilities. On a lighter note,one thing we can be certain of is that, yes, Aidan Quinn does have vivid blue eyes...but does Ciaran Hinds know he has the most beautiful hazel-green eyes, a girl could lose herself in?Melies D'Argent Award for Best European Film Best Film & Best Screenplay Awards 2010 Irish Film & Television Academy Award Best Actor Award for Ciaran Hinds 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Best Supporting Actor Award for Aidan Quinn 2010 Irish Film & Television Academy AwardsHighly Recommended

Robert J. Maxwell A curious movie in which Ciaran Hinds, a recent widower with two young children, begins to have experiences that involve ghosts of people he knows or, in one case, a soon-to-be ghost. The visions or whatever they are tend to occur at night but are terrifying.The story takes place in the Irish city of Cobh, where a writer's festival is taking place. (Yes, in Ireland, at least, serious writers are still taken seriously.) Hinds is hired as a limo driver and guide for a young British blond,Iben Hjejle, who is desperately trying to shed herself of the attentions of a self-indulgent American writer and former lover, Aidan Quinn.With no one else to turn to, and in anguish, Hinds befriends Hjejle and tells her of his visions. Hinds has also written some stories about ghosts, autobiographical we presume, and Hjejle takes his manuscript to London with her, after leaving Hinds with a warm good-bye kiss and inviting him to visit her at any time.It has a few shocking moments, not particularly well done. But it's an adult movie, in no way insulting, with some agreeable directorial touches, good performances, and fine casting. Hjejle is attractive without being a glamorous young sexpot. And Ciaran Hinds has the face of Humphrey C. Earwicker, the face of everyman. He looks as if he'd just stepped out of a factory that made toothpaste tubes.It's neatly photographed, it captures Ireland's rainy temperament, and has several other virtues but it's sluggish, a kind of slice of life, in which events take place deliberately but accidentally, the way they do in reality. They don't rush after one another as they do in most films. I doubt that it will appeal to everyone but if you have patience and time, you should find this an interesting diversion.

Christian Andersson This is maybe the only film I've seen that has had me start crying, and keep crying even 5 minutes after the film ended... and I couldn't really explain why.It's a really nice mix between hints of supernatural happenings and a very emotional film about a guy living a quite ordinary life.For me, it was very touching and the dialogs and the minimalistic and realistic role play by Ciarán Hinds was brilliant.I can't see how this film could be improved. This film is a great example on how you can make a movie that doesn't stick to the well established genres, and still can be really successful.If you are interested in supernatural ghost movies, this is probably nothing for you as it doesn't contain a lot of that (but a little). If you like emotional movies towards the melancholic direction and, yet, you are prepared to see something a bit different, then this film is for you! It's great.

staciarose20 This movie may move too slow for some people who are used to modern horror movies where everything is constant gore or sex. The Eclipse is more true to an actually book story being told. I liked the setting and the scenery. I liked the characters..except Aidan Quinn's, and that's just natural because he's annoying. The older man popping up out of nowhere actually is scary because the music that goes along with the scene is so tranquil up until that point. I was watching it in the dark, but even in the light the scenes like that will catch you off guard. Overall this was a good story and plot. His deceased wife coming back at the end to see him was emotionally real and thoughtful.