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The Dead

1987, Movie, 1h 23min

The final film directed by John Huston—completed by the ailing director just months before his death and released posthumously—is a triumphant farewell from an artist in total command of his craft and fearlessly confronting his own mortality. Faithfully adapted from the celebrated short story by James Joyce, THE DEAD unfolds on a snowy night in turn-of-the-century Dublin during and after a Feast of Epiphany dinner party as married couple Gretta (Anjelica Huston) and Gabriel Conroy (Donal McCann) find themselves quietly shaken by memories of the past, the mysteries of love, and the inexorability of death.

Country: United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany,United States

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Critic David Parkinson

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John Huston’s final film is one of cinema’s most achingly sad studies of shattered illusion.

Read full review at Empire

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In 1904 Dublin, two spinster sisters and their niece host an annual Epiphany dinner party, where a chance encounter with an old flame brings back memories of a long-lost love that threatens to disrupt their tranquil lives forever. As the night drifts into the past, long-held secrets come to light, and the guests must confront the realities of their own lives - lost loves, shattered dreams - that have remained hidden for far too long.