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**Posted by FluteLocked** October 29, 2013 3:39 pm

Certainly!

**Posted by SusiGo** October 29, 2013 9:30 pm

Look what's playing round the corner of my Dublin hotel. And guess where I am going to tomorrow.

**Posted by tobeornot221b** October 29, 2013 9:36 pm

Hopefully, it's not the Gaelic dubbed version, Susi!

**Posted by tonnaree** October 29, 2013 9:39 pm

SusiGo wrote:
Look what's playing round the corner of my Dublin hotel. And guess where I am going to tomorrow.

Going to see BC in one of my favorite cities in the world. Jealous.

**Posted by SusiGo** October 29, 2013 10:02 pm

tobeornot221b wrote:
Hopefully, it's not the Gaelic dubbed version, Susi!

Didn't you know - my Gaelic is perfect. Bhaile Atha Cliath. Slainte. Taoiseach.

**Posted by Harriet** October 29, 2013 10:06 pm

Seems like you will get along there very well

**Posted by SusiGo** October 29, 2013 10:14 pm

Just boasting. That is all I know. So I hope it will not be the dubbed version.

**Posted by Harriet** October 29, 2013 10:16 pm

Lady Boast-a-Lot? Nah!

**Posted by SusiGo** October 29, 2013 10:33 pm

Not that bad.

**Posted by miriel68** October 30, 2013 7:33 am

So glad for you that you are going to see the original version!

**Posted by Mattlocked** October 30, 2013 11:50 am

We had a quite big article in our local newspaper - but now they show it nowhere here - and there are 4 cinemas nearby! Idiots.

**Posted by FluteLocked** October 30, 2013 2:54 pm

SusiGo wrote:
tobeornot221b wrote:
Hopefully, it's not the Gaelic dubbed version, Susi!
Didn't you know - my Gaelic is perfect. Bhaile Atha Cliath. Slainte. Taoiseach.

I collected gealic words during my last holidays in Ireland....
Got a few now but I'm still wondering how to pronounce them...

The only ones I really know are Dhún na nGall, Céad mile fáilte and
Sláinte. :D

tonnaree: Me tooooooooo!!

**Posted by Pav** October 30, 2013 9:33 pm

FluteLocked wrote:
I collected gealic words during my last holidays in Ireland....
Got a few now but I'm still wondering how to pronounce them...

The only ones I really know are Dhún na nGall, Céad mile fáilte and
Sláinte. :D

I started learning Irish this term It's really difficult but fun as well. As for the pronunciation you can go to www.abair.ie, write a word or a whole phrase and they will read it to you (choose Conamara dialect)

**Posted by SusiGo** October 31, 2013 10:14 am

Thanks for the link, Pav.

So I watched the film yesterday (in English) and here is a short non-spoilerish review:
It is definitely helpful to know a bit about the story they are telling as the film jumps from one place to another and is quite fast-paced. Many things are just alluded to so it is good to have some basic knowledge of the facts.
To me the European angle of the story works much better than the American perspective, maybe because the European events and characters are real while the character of Laura Linney and Stanley Tucci are fictitious.
The film concentrates on the friendship and later break between Julian and Daniel which really gripped me. Their relationship is complex and we see Julian mainly through the eyes of Daniel, fascinated at first, disillusioned at at a later stage.
But the real thing about the film is of course Benedict. He acts with his whole body, using large gestures and tiny nuances to create Julian's persona. He has some heartbreaking moments and in the next scene you would gladly kick him. He gives away glimpses of his inner life to bind Daniel to himself but even then you never know what is truth and what is not. I could have watched him doing this for much longer than two hours but with him it is always likes this, isn't it?

**Posted by SolarSystem** October 31, 2013 10:40 am

Susi, that sounds great! I can't wait to watch the film today, although it will be the dubbed version... I'll just try to imagine hearing Benedicts real voice.

Maybe we should think about a new thread for everyone who has already seen the film?

**Posted by besleybean** February 20, 2014 7:45 pm

Just seen it and I love it.

**Posted by kittykat** February 20, 2014 11:42 pm

Just watched it on DVD...I think it's brilliant!

**Posted by besleybean** February 21, 2014 6:40 am

You and I must have watched it at the same time!
I really enjoyed it too and actually cannot understand what people don't like about it.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** February 21, 2014 4:42 pm

It made me obsessed with WikiLeaks. xD

**Posted by besleybean** February 21, 2014 5:48 pm

I've always been interested...and I understand Benedict's puzzlement that Assange is so against the film...I think it's reasonably balanced.