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...confusions it could impose on you if you were young, fresh from an upcountry village and suddenly exposed to the subversive stimulations of Trinity College, Dublin, are the subject of the ingratiating, clearheaded, coming-of-age comedy that director Pat O'Connor and writer Andrew Davies have fashioned from Maeve Binchy's novel Circle of Friends. It revolves around three convent-educated girls: Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), cautiously quirky; Nan (Saffron Burrows), incautiously ambitious, whose effort to seduce her way into the Protestant gentry brings her to near tragedy; and, at the center of the circle, Benny, large, plain, smart...
Hollywood makes two kinds of Ireland movies--the working class urban fantasy and the fey rural fantasy. "Circle of Friends," the latest Irish presence in American theaters, divides its time between Dublin and the countryside, but the movie could be set in Poughkeepsie as far as the plot is concerned; in this formulaic love-story, the setting doesn't intrude for a moment on the predicatable progress of the romance...
Each session took on its own character, Moloney says, "like chapters in a book." The Rolling Stones, who did The Rocky Road to Dublin, a roistering waltz with an impish touch of Satisfaction thrown in, showed up with their own bar. Moloney's tight charts soon surrendered to jam-session chaos. At gig's end, the genial mob adjourned to a pub and quaffed Guinness until 6 in the morning...
Their music, so serene and intimate, can fill the biggest arenas. In 1979 they played before 1.35 million people in Dublin as an opening act for John Paul II. Later, the Pope had them play at his place. "After the Vatican show," Moloney recalls, "he gave us rosary beads. But we were a little disappointed he didn't invite us to stay for lunch--we were starved!--or for any of his Polish vodka...
...this coming-of-age comedy based on a Maeve Binchy novel, the cutest, nicest guy at Dublin's Trinity College (Chris O'Donnell) falls in love with a convent-educated country shopkeeper's daughter (Minnie Driver). To him, she's beautiful, no matter how ungainly she thinks she is. And she sees beyond his good looks to the insecure and awkward boy beneath the facade. "Their sweet, determined, gently understated struggle for fulfillment in a superstitiously conservative society makes this movie a quiet joy to behold," says TIME critic Richard Schickel...