Faith and Film: Brooklyn
Movie review by Fr. Tom Condon, O.P.
Brooklyn is a beautifully told story of Eilis (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish woman who leaves her homeland to make a new life for herself in Brooklyn in the early 1950’s. With few prospects for herself in Ireland, Eilis leaves behind her mother and sister to sail alone across the Atlantic in search of a better life. The priest in her home town makes contact with Fr. Flood, an Irish priest in Brooklyn, who finds Eilis a place to live in a boarding house and a job in a department store.
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