Product: Ryan's Daughter (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2006)
Rating: 5.0
It gets better each time I see it!
I have recently watched Ryan's Daughter on VHS about three times, after not having seen it in over 30 years.The cinematography is out of this world, and where all the villagers went down to the sea is so gripping that the viewer could be swept into the sea having to watch for his or her life. David Lean makes all the characters very real. What a powerful figure John Mills played as the village idiot. Father Collins plays a country priest in this village along the west coast of Ireland, but he has tremendous knowing of the people and of life in general. Rosy Shaughnessey is the young dreamer who falls in love with the dashing young British officer, and Rosy's husband, Charles who is much older than Rosy kindly keeps in the background, hoping the romance will die a natural death. Some of the village characters are utterly vicious, and you are made to feel an intense dislike for them.The political situation between England and Ireland is clearly defined throughout the movie.