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Dance First (2023)
Directed by James Marsh
“Think later.”
History, Drama · 1h 40m
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.
Cast
Gabriel Byrne
Samuel Beckett
Aidan Gillen
James Joyce
Sandrine Bonnaire
Suzanne
Fionn O'Shea
Young Samuel
Maxine Peake
Barbara
Bronagh Gallagher
Nora Barnacle
Lisa Dwyer Hogg
May Beckett
Caroline Boulton
Sylvia Beach
Gráinne Good
Lucia Joyce
C
Cillian Hollywood
5 year old Samuel
P
Patrik Piró
Adam
L
Léonie Lojkine
Younger Suzanne
Crew
- Director
- James Marsh
- Screenplay
- Neil Forsyth
- Director of Photography
- Antonio Paladino
- Editor
- David Charap
- Producer
- Tom Thostrup, Michael Livingstone, Viktória Petrányi
Details
- Release date
- 2023-11-03
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- French, English
- Countries
- Belgium, Hungary, United Kingdom
- Production
- 2LE Media, Film Constellation, Proton Cinema, Sky Arts, uMedia
- Box office
- $162,919