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Dec 6, 2019 · It may be small in scale and intimate in approach, but the latest film from directing duo Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn is anything but ordinary. The tale of long-married couple Joan and Tom (played by Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson), who are wrenched from their comfort zone of ritual and routine after Joan is diagnosed with breast cancer, Ordinary Love is a masterfully crafted ...
Dec 10, 2019 · But there is plenty of pain. Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s engrossing, claustrophobic four-hander, written by Owen McCafferty, gives this decent, unremarkable couple a tragedy that strengthenes their relationship and then another that tests it to the limit.
LEYBURN, Olivia Wilhelmina (Wilma) – 10th October 2023, peacefully at hospital. Beloved wife of Robert. Much loved mother to Glenn and mother-in-law to Lisa. Loving Gran to Sylvie. Dear sister and sister-in-law.
Review: Ordinary Love. by Elena Lazic. 12/09/2019 - Directorial duo Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s gentle look at a love that runs deeper than illness ultimately feels slight. Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville in Ordinary Love. A recurring theme in many films showing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, cancer, is at the ...
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Tom (Neeson) and Joan have been together for a long time. McCaffetry dabbles into the middle chapters of their partnership with an earnest appreciation for honesty and authenticity. Witnessing their walks together – with Manville’s short steps managing to keep pace with Neeson’s staggering strides – and overhearing their gentle bickering, it become...
Maybe it’s because of Lesley Manville’s presence that Ordinary Love feels like the antithesis to Phantom Thread. In the Paul Thomas Anderson film, Manville plays witness to a marriage that was sustained entirely by pain, as Reynolds Woodc*ck and Alma would trade blows and feed their marriage through building each other back up. Here, the incomparab...
Ordinary Love’s minimalist approach to the narrative puts a lot of pressure on the performers, but fortunately, Manville, Neeson and Wilmot shine through at nearly every instance. If they hadn’t, the film would nearly implode. But because they have, it isn’t larger than life. And that’s an accomplishment. Have you had the chance to see Ordinary Lov...
Ordinary Love marks the third film and something of a departure for Northern Irish directing duo by Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn who came to attention with Cherrybomb (2009) – a rauchous coming-of-age drama set in contemporary Belfast – and Good Vibrations (2012) – set around the eponymous Belfast record shop and its notorious proprietor Terry
Feb 14, 2020 · Lisa Barros D'sa and Glenn Leyburn's 'Ordinary Love' is the rare cancer film that never gets too maudlin, but will audiences respond to it? ... While Joan explores the fear of death, Tom feels the ...
