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The Eclipse

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Ireland · 2009
Rated R · 1h 28m
Director Conor McPherson
Starring Ciarán Hinds, Aidan Quinn, Iben Hjejle, Jim Norton
Genre Drama, Horror

Michael Farr is a recent widower who teaches and lives in the seaside town of Cobh. As he continues to cope with his wife's death, he begins to experience paranormal events connected to his dying father-in-law. When Michael is inadvertently tangled up in a love triangle, his supernatural visions grow more disturbing.

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Los Angeles Times by

With a well-knit array of picturesque long shots, shadow-strewn medium takes and the occasional silhouetted close-up, The Eclipse finds plenty of heartfelt gravity in its tale of love lost and found on a gothic coast.

40

Time Out by David Fear

Never finds a common ground between the fantastic and the heartfelt. Such unintegrated flip-flopping between a muted character study and a horror flick relying on cheap scare tactics leaves you feeling mildly schizophrenic

63

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Although The Eclipse is technically a horror film, dealing as it does with issues of the supernatural, it has the heart of a romance and the tone of a drama. It's slow, thoughtful, and melancholy - at times seeming to forget that a ghost story is supposed to be at least marginally scary.

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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

A moody little number, The Eclipse makes good on its name by sometimes obscuring its themes and even point, which can have its charms though also severe drawbacks.

67

The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin

Though The Eclipse travels a sleepy route to a shrug of anticlimax, it’s refreshing to see a film acknowledge that life and love don’t end at 50, even in the outsized shadow of a soulmate’s death.

60

Boxoffice Magazine by Wade Major

A charming oddity, a character-driven drama with just enough fringe genre elements to both enhance and distract, though ultimately hewing closer to the former to make the latter only a minor annoyance.

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