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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 · 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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May 31, 2013 · Tweet. Now streaming on: 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 ...
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.
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...
Aug 24, 2012 · When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer (Mac) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her...
