"Now must I these three praise
Three women that have wrought
What joy is in my days:"
The beginning of Yeats' poem Friends, read by Neil Jordan at last night's National Library's award- winning exhibition: Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats.
Especially poignant to read upon my return from a week-end away with three of my finest friends.
But enough about me and moving on to the movies, moving from Galway's Druid to Sligo's Yeats and Mr. Jordan, and to the south, to Cork.
Mr. Jordan is fresh from completing Ondine with Colin Farrell and Stephen Rea. Co-starring is Mr. Farrell's Ballykissangel compatriot, Dervla Kirwan. Besides Ballykissangel and even more importantly Doctor Who, Ms. Kirwan is known for her stage work in Billy Roche's The Wexford Trilogy and the West End production of Brian Friel's The Aristocrats.
The movie, set and filmed in and around Castletownbere, West Cork, portrays a fairy tale of a fisherman who finds a woman in his nets. He is convinced that she is a mermaid, or more appropriately for the setting, or netting, a selkie, a seal who can take on human form. I'm thinking of John Sayles The Secret of Roan Inish and I am very pleased. Roan Inish is my second favorite Sayles movie, right behind Eight Men Out. How will Mr. Jordan's selkie story compare to the very American John Sayles'? Any thoughts? And why does Father keep a leather coat hidden in the roof?
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