The Guardian reports that Dublin filmmaker Sean Walsh has made a movie of Ulysses.
Ten years ago, Sean Walsh, a young Dublin filmmaker, set out on an ambitious and improbable journey: to make a feature film of James Joyce's Ulysses. Despite countless setbacks, innumerable revisions (Walsh estimates he has read the novel 50 times and written 800 drafts of his screenplay) and widespread disbelief within the film community that he could ever make the film, this year he completed his project.
Starring Stephen Rea as the mock-heroic everyman, Leopold Bloom, Angeline Ball, best remembered for her role as backup singer in The Commitments, as his carnal and cuckolding wife, Molly, and Hugh O'Conor, who starred in Chocolat, as the young artist-intellectual, Stephen Dedalus, Walsh's film, simply titled Bloom, has already generated intense debate in Ireland.
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