Two ghost lovers catfight over a dead satirist while Dublin watches. Séances have never been this petty.
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.
Acting
Geraldine Chaplin's séance hostess steals every scene
Direction
McGuckian's theatrical staging feels appropriately haunted
Writing
Adapted from Yeats' unsettling one-act play
Director
Mary McGuckian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yeats wrote the original play after his own automatic writing experiments with his wife Georgie, who he believed channeled spirits.
Swift's real relationships with Esther 'Stella' Johnson and Esther 'Vanessa' Vanhomrigh remain one of literature's most debated romantic mysteries — this film picks the messiest interpretation.
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