Some Other Place

Director in Person
Screening on Film
Directed by Patrick Bergin and Paula Frazier-Bergin.
With Patrick Bergin, Caitriona Ni Mhurcu, Tony Rohr.
Ireland, 1999, 35mm, color, 113 min.

Shot over a period of two years, Some Other Place is a compendium of three Yeats plays—The Cat and the Moon, Calvary, and The Countess Kathleen—produced and directed by Patrick Bergin (Sleeping with the Enemy, Patriot Games) and his wife, Paula Frazier-Bergin. Employing elements of the Japanese Noh theater (which had influenced Yeats’s own work), the filmmakers offer a highly original and cinematic rendering of the plays, ranging from the stark monochrome realism of Calvary to the big-screen pastoralism of The Countess Kathleen. The end result is a beautiful and heartfelt recreation of W. B. Yeats’s imagined Celtic twilight.

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