Word: fiona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that made him look like an extra from Four Weddings and a Funeral. After receiving a warm round of applause from the 1,000 students crammed together on the brown leather benches of the elegant 1871 Union Debating Chamber, Simpson tried a few quips, only to be interrupted by Fiona Maazel, an American at Oxford for her junior year abroad. "You can make your jokes, but this isn't funny," she said. "This is serious. Your wife was murdered. Your history of assault and abuse makes this an insult." The audience was stunned and embarrassed. Maazel was escorted...
...everything into shadow. And, in sharp contrast to usual Hollywood practice, nobody looks like a model; the women wear no make-up, the men are paunchy and badly shaven. The film also benefits from some finely drawn minor characters. Louisa Musgrove, her brother Charles, and Admiral and Mrs. Croft (Fiona Shaw) are all sympathetically portrayed...
...goes to this film willing to be entranced by the beauty of the islands, the mysticism of the story, and the magic of the sea, then "The Secret of Roan Inish" will certainly oblige. As Fiona herself remarks, "It's a lovely story...
Unfortunately, the audience can't always comply. The audience accepts, for example, that Fiona's ancestors were half-seal, but cannot accept that two children are able to completely refurbish a cottage in a single summer. The transitions between realism and fantasy in this movie are not smooth enough for the audience to tolerate both...
...Roan Inish" is saved by its visual beauty and by the efforts of the cast. Jeni Courtney as Fiona brings an adult seriousness to her role which is at once amusing and disarming. Lally and Colgan are charming, though their characters are the sort of life-size leprechauns Hollywood seems to think are roving Ireland. Characatures like these are balanced by the dark and mysterious performance of John Lynch, as Fiona's adult cousin, who is thought mentally deficient but who has an uncanny rapport with both the natural and supernatural worlds...