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03/24/02
A Love Divided (2001)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:10
Rotten:9
Average Rating:5.3/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 1, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: The personal and the political collide in Sidney Macartneys's A LOVE DIVIDED, a compelling cinematic rendering of a notorious sectarian conflict in small town Ireland of the 1950s. Transcending the... [More]
Starring: Liam Cunningham, Orla Brady, Tony Doyle, Nicole Bohan
Director: Sidney Macartney
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Reviews for A Love Divided
It fails to arouse much more than deep annoyance.
06/01/01
No review available.
10/28/05
Both overly familiar in its themes and uncomfortably close to melodrama.
06/06/01
A 'thesis' film that will offend Catholics and stimulate considerable post-movie discussion.
05/25/01
A solid, balanced period piece that focuses on a specific place and time yet resonates with universal themes.
06/22/01
Top CriticA tug-at-your-heartstrings weepie from the sledgehammer school of filmmaking.
12/14/01
Impeded by overemphatic camerawork and a meandering POV.
05/29/01
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03/10/03
Fine performances ... help keep it from seeming excessively schematic.
06/01/01
The gripping A Love Divided will leave you taking sides, whether or not that was the film's intent.
09/07/01
It's like a PBS version of a movie of the week about child abduction, complete with histrionic, spit-flecked speechifying in quaint Irish brogues.
09/21/01
Top CriticAn Irish drama that's a lot more sly and a lot less straightforward than it appears on the surface.
12/14/01
Top CriticThe drama feels artificially pumped-up.
10/12/01
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08/09/02
Top CriticPersonal views aside, this small, well-crafted Irish production achieves importance by saying what it intends to say with both strength and conviction.
06/01/01
Sydney Macartney, whose previous directing experience had been mostly in television, deals freshly with situations that also could have been cliches.
06/21/01
Top CriticA disquieting study of how irresponsible demagoguery can ignite an ideological wildfire that consumes an entire community.
06/01/01
Top CriticA cautionary tale of the mischief that can happen when men no longer see their neighbors as human.
09/21/01
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