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Ordinary Love: Directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn. With Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Esh Alladi, Melanie Clark Pullen. An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
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- Drama, Romance
- Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
- 2020-02-14
Consider that your upfront trigger warning. But Irish husband/wife directing team Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, working from a script by Irish playwright Owen McCafferty, have crafted a nuanced, raw, and well-acted picture that, despite the downer subject matter, is worth your time. Continue reading “Film Review: Ordinary Love“
Barros D’Sa's directorial debut in 2006 was The 18th Electricity Plan, [2] a short film based on her own screen play and co-directed with husband and collaborator Glenn Leyburn. The film played at various international film festivals including LA Shorts , Clermont-Ferrand and Cork International Film Festival , where it won a Special Mention in the Best Short Film category.
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
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 ...
Directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, a husband-and-wife team, also fostered a much more collaborative way of working than Murphy had been used to. ... Barros D’Sa and Leyburn worked ...
Nov 29, 2019 · Instead, co-directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn give us a tender drama which comes alive in its quietest, most undemonstrative moments. A bit like the real thing. Tom (Liam Neeson) and ...
