Love & Rage

Synopsis

Ireland, at the end of the 19th century, a time of political unrest:





Agnes MacDonell owns a large estate on the remote island of Achill. A tough, determined English woman, she meets her match in the mysterious James Lynchehaun, 'fine, dark, animal looking', who persuades her against her better instincts to employ him as her land agent.





Despite their class and age difference - she is in her early forties, he is in his early thirties - Agnes finds herself powerfully drawn to the determined Lynchehaun and they have a passionate, if dangerous affair.





But almost immediately Agnes becomes scared as the man's evil streak starts to show itself, and - in a climactic scene of deranged violence and emotion - he nearly destroys her.





Brian Lynch's powerfully and beautifully paced screenplay draws us into a world of almost Victorian melodrama and the desperate, at times comic struggle for power and domination between an emancipated woman and a persuasive, but destructive man.





The film stars Greta Scacchi, Daniel Craig ('Elizabeth, Love is the Devil'), Stephen Dillane (Welcome to Sarajevo), Valerie Edmond ('The Crow Road' 1997 BAFTA Nomination) and Donal Donnelly ('The Dead').

Details

Year

2000

Type of film

Features

Running Time

100 mins

Format

35mm

Director

Cathal Black

Producer

David Collins

Executive Producer

David Collins

Editor

Ulrike Leipold

Screenwriter

Brian Lynch

Director of Photography

Slawomir Idziak

Music

Ralf Wienrich

Principal Cast

Greta Scacchi, Daniel Craig, Stephen Dillane

Genre

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 26th November 2005