"Brooklyn": From Ireland with love, desire and good cinema

The film is nominated for an Oscar for best film, the leading actress (Saoirse Ronan) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Enough reasons to go see Brooklyn , the work of John Crowley who just won the BAFTA for Best British Film, and competing for three Oscars yse debut with us on Thursday. In principle, the eponymous book that gave origin written by journalist Colm Tóibín, who nearly won the Man Booker. And the adaptation of the book is made ​​by none other than Nick Hornby ( High Fidelity , Fever Pitch ). But also has starring Saoirse Ronan a rising actress whose personal history has a lot to do with telling the film.

Romantic comedy, filmed in a classical style, Brooklyn tells the story of Eilis Lasey (Ronan), an Irish girl who in 1950 emigrated to New York district that gives title to the film. Driven by lack of work and his family, begins a new life among the doubts, nostalgia and the awakening of love when he meets Tony (Emory Cohen), a descendant of Italians who will question their concept of home, instead of membership.

His new life then advances in this strange neighborhood, but engaging in a stifling house guests, with a difficult job and the decision to study at night, situations that hinder adaptation yet advances. Then there is the epistolary relationship with his mother and brother, dimming the distance, but the load at a time of nostalgia. And then a loss, and the decision to return to a place that was his own.

But back to the young Saoirse, who is nominated for the Oscar for best actress for her role in the film (competes with none other than Cate Blanchett, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lawrence and Charlotte Rampling).The youngest of the contenders was born in the Bronx, but moved to Ireland three years. Now, at 21 he moved to New York. Maybe share the joy and pain that lives his character by moving away from home. To discuss this idea, she quotes the Father Flood, the character in the film that urges to emigrate to the United States. "The homesickness is something you have and eventually go to someone else," he says. And that Brooklyn's affected me. "When you leave the place where you grew up, and no matter how many times again, your home will never be the same."

That film, the notion of belonging, of personal identity, which includes of course a look on society and the context, seduction and drama of living abroad, whether or not to have a home is all about. It is a period film, yes, but always relevant questions. A film that, perhaps, all the children of immigrants enjoy more.

A lady actress ... at age 21

Not many actresses who at age 21 have a filmography of the caliber of Saoirse Ronan ... and two Oscar nominations.

Was 13 when, with his third film, opened the eyes of the viewers and industry Hollywood with his portrayal of Briony Tallis in Atonement, desire and sin . So you'd think Keira Knightley outshone as the girl who accused the boyfriend of his older brother for a crime he did not commit. She was nominated for an Oscar for supporting actress. Then came The Lovely Bones , Peter Jackson, the thriller Hanna , The Guest , The Grand Budapest Hotel and consecration Brooklyn , again nominated for an Oscar, but you as the star.