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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.
May 31, 2013 · "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. And yet for all its formal intelligence, the film is fundamentally unsatisfying. Why?
May 31, 2013 · 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 ...
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James Marsh (Man on Wire, Project Nim) leaves documentary filmmaking and directs his first feature in the thriller Shadow Dancer. Set in 1990s Belfast, an IR...
Synopsis. Colette McVeigh: widow, mother, terrorist. A woman who has lived the Republican cause for all her 29 years. A woman whose brothers are both heavily involved at the senior levels in the IRA, whose husband was killed by the British security forces. A woman who is now an informer for MI5.
In this taut spy thriller from Academy Award-winning director James Marsh, Collette (Andrea Riseborough), an IRA soldier and single mother, falls into the hands of...
