Bloom

About Bloom

Bloom is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Sean Walsh, based on the 1922 novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The film premiered at the 2003 Taormina Film Festival. Angeline Ball won the award for "Best Actress in a Film" at the Irish Film and Television Awards. The soundtrack was written and produced by David Kahne.

Website: http://ulysses.ie/

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Premise

Bloom takes place on 16 June 1904 and attempts to make a visual reconstruction of Joyce's stream of consciousness style.

Cast

Stephen Rea as Leopold Bloom

Angeline Ball as Molly Bloom

Hugh O'Conor as Stephen Dedalus

Mark Huberman as Haines

Eoin McCarthy as Blazes Boylan

Alvaro Lucchesi as Buck Mulligan

Patrick Bergin as Citizen

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Notable quotes

“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.”
— Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234.
“Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.”
— Napoleon, as quoted in The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte (1868), p. 148.
“Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.”
— Book EX, line 278.
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
— William Wordsworth, Sonnet. Not Love, Not War, Nor, etc.
“And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.”
— Robert Burns, The Chevalier's Lament.
“Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.”
— Jeremy Taylor, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 397.

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