I was expecting a period piece and biography. Pat Murphy - It does seem to have crossed over from being an art house movie into that. The real strength of it is that it is a love story and you don't need to know that much about Joyce to get something from the film. It's interesting because the way he wrote changed the way women were written about at the beginning of the twentieth century. He really changed what could be said about men and women.
People recognise different moments of that from the things they go through themselves.
PM - I think he always knew she was the one. Yet it's paradoxical because he really appreciated the simplicity in the way she was so direct and open. As his own writing went into different areas he'd try to push out the boat a bit in terms of his own reality. PM - I'd wanted to do stuff related to Joyce for a long time. When I started making films, I made a little film at art college called 'Rituals of Memory', which people would think of as a Joycean film because it deals with memory and relationships and loss.