Immigrant melodrama “Brooklyn” with Saoirse Ronan – STERN

Migration is certainly not a new phenomenon. For people who leave their very own environment, and look elsewhere for livelihood and security, there is probably since the dawn of our history.
So wandered about from the 19th century, poor people from Ireland en masse to the United States from. Despite this a serious background enchanting nostalgic look into the early 50s raises director John Crowley in his melodrama “Brooklyn – A love between two worlds”. The romance about a young Irish woman in America works primarily because it investigates the question, which means “homeland.” – And despite all shown pain of bouncing it formulates an optimistic-liberal response

In the Crowley nuanced and lovingly appointed work Saoirse Ronan plays the lead role. The New York-born Irish Ronan, despite its 21 years an old cinema hare: In 2007, she played in the drama “Atonement” beside Kira Knightley, a 13-year-old, which destroys the lives of her sister and her lover – and was it for an Oscar nominated. Even now it is able to “Brooklyn” – from a screenplay by novelist Nick Hornby (“About a Boy”) – to indicate with the finest expression complex psychological states

Brooklyn as a new home

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It embodies the young Eilis Lacey, who ekes out in small-town post-war Ireland under the care of her mother and sister Rose a modest existence as a shop girl. At the initiative of the elderly Rose, who wins the benevolent pastor Flood (Jim Broadbent) as an intermediary, Eilis lands after agonizing stormy crossing but soon in Brooklyn, New York

There lives an Irish community. – discloses often under precarious conditions as a touching Christmas celebration in the parish hall. Quartered in the girls board the whimsical Mrs. Kehoe (Julie Walters), the newcomer works shy and awkward in a department store. My homesickness confesses Eilis her sister in letters.

Back to the home

Gradually succeeds the provincial woman to gain a foothold in the metropolis. They formed professionally and blossoms, as she met the Italian-American Tony (Emory Cohen) and marries. But then travels from Eilis sad reason back to Ireland. And the quiet country of origin like her as well as its inhabitants, including the wealthy Jim (Domhnall Gleeson), who woos her.

The conflict, having to choose between two lifestyles, breaks in Young woman on. Council there is this Pastor Flood. When Eilis even confesses to him that she longed heartily to be an Irish girl in Ireland, he comforts them by saying, “. Homesickness is like most diseases – it goes past” “Brooklyn” is a very recent contribution in the issue of home.

(Brooklyn -. A love between two worlds, Ireland, UK, Canada in 2015, 112 min, ages 0, by John Crowley, with Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent)