For me, Dancing at Lughnasa is a thoroughly depressing and pointless film. Populated by unsympathetic, morose and flat characters, this story starts to develop, sputters and then utterly falls apart. You are left wondering what Pat O'Connor could have possibly been thinking. No matter how good the acting, how fantastic the locations or how great your desire to connect to the film or its basic premise: if a film has an undeveloped or unintelligible story, it just doesn't work! Never will. Be forewarned if you are considering this for a rental: unless you're into despair and depression you might want to consider something else.
Review of Dancing at Lughnasa
