Stella Days [HD]

"GREAT ACTING PERFORMANCE OF MARTIN SHEEN!"
Martin Sheen presents Excellent acting as he plays a Priest who loves movies. His Inspiration takes him to different levels of drama as he contemplates on opening a Cinema in an Irish village. However, he is confronted with struggle and challenges as he faces the opinion of the church and the townspeople. His sole purpose is to raise money for the church. This film portrays passion, emotion, and inspiration. Very Entertaining and Enjoyable from start to finish. Highly Recommended!

'I thought I would find some meaning here. But its just poor-and damp'
Martin Sheen has landed a role that shows off his considerable talents in this small scale, sensitive and informed film from Tribeca. Based on a novel by Michael Doorley adapted for the screen by Antoine O. Flatharta and directed with sensitivity by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, the story takes place in Ireland of 1956, and the film opens with an introduction to bringing electricity into a very small town whose people have done very well without the new-fangled things, thank you very much.

The priest of the town is Fr. Daniel Barry (Martin Sheen), a loving man who hears confessions, makes his rounds offering oils of last rites to please one elderly ill patient and caring for his flock in a very human manner, is a man of the World having the Church both in America and Rome, who has a passion for Cinema , Music and Language is left to languish in a rural community after being replaced in Rome by a younger priest with greater credentials for scholarship. The Parish Bishop (Tom...

Irish Film Board produced "small film" - with, surprisingly, "anti-Catholic Church" focus.
This is another of what are often called "small films" - often by independent production companies but, as in this case, produced under the auspices (and funding) of a national film board (of which there is none in the US). "Stella Days" (the title refers to the name of the movie "venue" - THE STELLA - I won't call it a "theater" - that Martin Sheen , as a priest, wants to open in a small Irish village in 1956.) was produced by the Irish National Film Board (with some participation from Norway, if I remember in the opening credits.) Much of the cast is Irish though the American stars are Martin Sheen and Stephen Rea.). Sheen's accent is not as strong as the others and some of this is excused by giving his character a plot device where he lived in the US for 18 years, thus softening it.

I'll defer to the other reviewers here to give you more of the plot - though I watched this DVD with no advance preparation or knowledge - except to think, from the packaging, that it would...

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