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Ulysses

Actors: Milo O'Shea, Fionnula Flanagan, Maire Hastings, Martin Dempsey

Release Date: Monday 30th November -0001

Running time: Ire minutes

Upon submission to the censor's board in 1967 Joseph Strick's adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses was banned. That veto was only lifted last year and although difficult to see why it stayed in place for 33 years, Ulysses, while no masterpiece, is a worthy attempt to film an 'unfilmable' novel. Following much the same path as the stream of consciousness novel set over the course of one summer's day in Dublin, Ulysses may not be as oblique as the source it is adapted from, but this relative clarity doesn't necessarily make it a wholly absorbing film.