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Shadow Dancer is a 2012 political thriller film directed by James Marsh and scripted by Tom Bradby, based on his 1998 novel of the same name. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and it was screened out of competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.
Aug 24, 2012 · Shadow Dancer: Directed by James Marsh. With Barry Barnes, Maria Laird, Ben Smyth, Brid Brennan. Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare.
- (13K)
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- James Marsh
- 2012-08-24
May 31, 2013 · Powered by JustWatch. "Shadow Dancer," about an IRA partisan recruited as an informant by MI5, creates a powerful mood of unease and sustains it for an hour and forty minutes. There are scattered moments of intense beauty throughout, thanks to Rob Hardy's widescreen photography, which tends to view people from either very far away or ...
Arrested after a failed bombing attempt, a single mother and IRA member (Andrea Riseborough) falls into the hands of a British agent (Clive Owen) who offers her a choice: Spy on her IRA comrades,...
- (89)
- James Marsh
- R
- Andrea Riseborough
Aug 25, 2012 · The film brilliantly captures a twilight world of violence and suspicion, dominated by the IRA's Kevin Mulville (David Wilmot), a ruthless zealot enforcing discipline and constantly searching for...
Summaries. Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare. In 1993, the IRA member Collette is arrested in the London tube after leaving a bomb in the facility.
When single mother Collette McVeigh (Riseborough) is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA plot in London, an MI5 officer (Owen) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison or return to Belfast to spy on her own family.
