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Stephen Woolley
Producer -
Neil Jordan
Director -
Greg Powell
Stunt Coordinator -
Drew Jones
Digital Effects Producer -
Susie Figgis
Casting -
Sandy Powell
Costume Design -
Elliot Goldenthal
Original Music Composer -
Chris Menges
Director of Photography
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SPDonlan
7/22/2024 3:25:00PM
Like many such epics, _Michael Collins_ is melodramatic and partial, about a past all too present. But much of the critical hostility it received/s is for offending popular pieties, imperial or republican, no less prejudiced. Jordan wrestled with historiography and moral complexity in writing his screenplay. He understood that any historical account involves selection and even distortion, not least to persuade producers and sell tickets. Ultimately, however, the period and place are too complex for Jordan to explain or Collins to contain: its violence is too roughly contextualized, its framing too hagiographical, and its characterization of De Valera too broad.
Liam Neeson
Michael CollinsBrendan Gleeson
Liam TobinCharles Dance
SoamesJulia Roberts
Kitty KiernanAlan Rickman
Eamon de ValeraJonathan Rhys Meyers
Collin's AssassinAidan Quinn
Harry RolandStephen Rea
Ned Broy