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Dance First tells the story of literary genius and 20th-century icon Samuel Beckett, who lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, and recluse. But despite all the adulation that came his way, Beckett was a man acutely aware of his own failings. Startattle.com – Dance First 2024.
- Starring : Gabriel Byrne / Aidan Gillen
- Genre : Biography / Drama
- Country : United States / United Kingdom / Hungary / Belgium
- Language : English / French
- Director : James Marsh
- Production : 2LE Media / Film Constellation / Proton Cinema / Sky Arts / Umedia
- Distributor : Sky Original Films / BIM Distribuzione / CaiChang International / Discovery / Exponenta / Festivals Cinema / Filmin / Filmtrade / Icon Productions / Magnolia Pictures / NOS Audiovisuais / Vertigo Média Kft. / Falcon Films
Dance First movie
Dance First release date
- August 9, 2024 : USA (limited)
- August 16, 2024 : USA (VOD)
Dance First cast
- Gabriel Byrne as Samuel Beckett (old)
- Aidan Gillen as James Joyce
- Fionn O’Shea as Samuel Beckett (young)
- Maxine Peake as Barbara
- Sandrine Bonnaire as Suzanne
- Robert Aramayo as Alfred Peron
- Bronagh Gallagher as Nora Barnacle
- Barry O’Connor as William Beckett
- Lisa Dwyer Hogg as May Beckett
- Gráinne Good as Lucia Joyce
- Caroline Boulton as Sylvia Beach
- Andrew Hefler as Leon
- Léonie Lojkine as Younger Suzanne
- Caleb Johnston-Miller as Samuel Beckett (age 10)
- Cillian Hollywood as Samuel Beckett (age 5)
Dance First 2024
Dance First is a biographical film about Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, directed by James Marsh (Wisconsin Death Trip, The King, Shadow Dancer, The Theory of Everything, The Mercy, King of Thieves) and written by Neil Forsyth. Gabriel Byrne stars as Beckett, with a supporting cast featuring Fionn O’Shea as a younger Beckett and Aidan Gillen as James Joyce. Dance First is scheduled to be released by Magnolia Pictures in select US theaters on August 9, 2024, then On Digital starting August 16, 2024.
The film is produced by Michael Livingstone, Viktoria Petranyl, and Tom Thostrup. Dance First had its world premiere at the 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 30, 2023. It was released in UK theaters on November 3, 2023. The film won the Torc Award for Excellence for Best Single Drama at the 2024 Celtic Media Festival.
Dance First is a sweeping account of Beckett’s life, from his childhood, his friendship with James Joyce, his relationship with his future wife Suzanne Dumesnil, his time as a fighter for the French Resistance during the Second World War, his postwar literary rise and subsequent Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, his affair with translator Barbara Bray, and his later life until his death in 1989. Throughout the film, Beckett carries out an interior monologue.
Dance First (2024 movie) trailer, release date, Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen. Dance First movie 2024 trailer, release date, cast Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen.
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