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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 · "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?
Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare. In 1993, the IRA member Collette is arrested in the London tube after leaving a bomb in the facility.
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...
May 22, 2013 · With her son's life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in the MI5 and return home. Soon on DVD! Directed by James Marsh, with Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall...
Winner of Best Supporting Actress for Brid Brennan, and nominated for three other Irish Film and Television Awards, including Best Film, Best Supporting Actor for David Wilmot, and Make Up...
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 the...
When single mother Collette McVeigh (Riseborough) is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA plot in London, an MI5 officer (Owen) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison or return to Belfast to spy on her own family.
