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"Sean Walsh’s version of ‘Ulysses’ is a triumphant reinterpretation of James Joyce's masterpiece. It is not the usual filming of actors mouthing Joyce's words, instead Walsh and his talented team approach Joyce using the visual vocabulary of the cinema in a manner I have no doubt Joyce himself would have approved. The film is brilliant, witty, innovative and, despite relocations of episodes all over Dublin, imaginatively faithful to Joyce’s work. Stephen Rea provides a masterly and brilliant evocation of Bloom, managing to convey at the same time his Irishness, his Jewishness, his cosmopolitanism and his humanity while Angeline Ball is quite the best of all the myriad of Molly Blooms that I have seen." David Norris (David Norris is a Senator in the Irish parliament and a Joycean scholar who is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest popularizers of James Joyce’s works. He was Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin and was invited to preview the Bloom feature film prior to its premiere).

"Fresh and bold, daring, and downright brazen in its sheer sexiness."Sunday Independent

"Captures the quality that shocked Joyce's original readers...Angeline Ball is superb." The Sunday Times

"A highly skilful work that captures much of the sweep and scope of it’s source.. ...vigorous, musical, modern." The Observer

"Bloom is a bawdy, irreverent, lyrical, compassionate, anguished, earthy, profound and deeply humane slice of life, performed with verve and intelligence by a superb ensemble cast led by Stephen Rea’s soulful and stoical Bloom, Angeline Ball’s sensually direct Molly and Hugh O’Connor’s boyish Stephen." The Sunday Tribune

"Cinema lovers should see this remarkable film." Sunday Independent