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This film is based on the one act play by W B Yeats and concerns another great figure from Irish literature, Jonathan Swift, whose spirit, with those of his two lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emergrs in a series of seances held in Dublin in 1928.
Words Upon the Window Pane is a 1994 Irish drama film directed by Mary McGuckian and starring Geraldine Chaplin, Ian Richardson, and Jim Sheridan. McGuckian directorial debut, it is based on William Butler Yeats' one-act play of the same name.
DAVID: An interesting film shown out of competition at the special events section was WORDS UPON THE WINDOWPANE, based on a play by W.B. Yates, set in Dublin in the 1920s, it concerns a séance during which the characters of Jonathan Swift and his lovers are evoked. An elegant visitor to the Lido was one of the stars of the film, Geraldine Chaplin.
17. Sept. 2022 · Words Upon the Window Pane’s engagement with the historical film’s cinematic tropes recalls how a defining characteristic of Irish film as a national cinema may be found in how “native themes and concerns are worked into an international style” (McLoone 90). Duly provocative in the case of Mary McGuckian’s film is how these “native themes” are themselves brought more to the fore ...
27. Juli 2020 · The Words Upon the Window-Pane (1930) is in many ways exceptional: it is Yeats’s only play with a realistic modern setting. Its subject is a seance held by the Dublin Spiritualist Association in ...
Words Upon the Window Pane is a film directed by Mary McGuckian with Geraldine Chaplin, Brid Brennan, Geraldine James, Hugh O'Conor .... Year: 1994. Original title: Words Upon the Window Pane. Synopsis: This film is based on the one act play by W B Yeats and concerns another great figure from Irish literature, Jonathan Swift, whose spirit, with those of his two lovers, Stella and Vanessa ...
Jonathan Swift, writer, politician and churchman, had two great and famous loves. Esther Johnson (Stella), became his lifelong companion after they met in England when he was a young man.
