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Nora (2000)

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Release Date
• USA: May 4, 2001
• UK: 19 May 2000

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MPAA Rating
Rated R for some strong sexuality and related dialogue.

Running Time
1 hour, 46 minutes

Country Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany

Studio Gam Film, IAC Holdings, Metropolitan Films, Natural Nylon Entertainment, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Volta Films

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Genre: Drama, Period Piece, Biography, Love Triangle

Plot: James Joyce, one of this century’s greatest modern writers, was a young man grasping for funds and desperate to make his mark as a writer. Walking down Dublin’s Nassau Street in his yachting cap and canvas shoes, he met Nora Barnacle, a tall, brown-haired girl from Galway. She was a proud, straightforward, outspoken country girl who had recently moved to Dublin, where she’d found work as a chambermaid in Finn’s Hotel.

The young Joyce fell in love with her immediately.

Nora offered Joyce all the qualities he yearned for in a woman – faithfulness, trust, tenderness, dominance and wit. She combined innocence and earthiness, fulfilling his longing for purity and desecration and in recalling their encounter on 16th June 1904 he later wrote of a sacrament which left in me a final sense of sorrow and degradation’. Their encounter had a lasting effect on the young Joyce and it was that day when he told Nora, you made me a man.

Though Nora could never fulfil the role of intellectual companion, she was his life-long love, his inspiration, his muse and without her, the world would be without his literary legacy.

In October 1904, in true Nora Barnacle spirit, she left Dublin with a man she hardly knew, to set out on a European adventure. By March 1905 the lovers had set up home in

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