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Ryan's Daughter is a 1970 British epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean, written by Robert Bolt and starring Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles. The film, set between August 1917 and January 1918, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I, despite moral and political opposition from her nationalist neighbours. The supporting cast features John Mills,…
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Source Ryan's Daughter may be a little-seen film, perhaps supported by an unfavourable social and cultural situation, but I find it a dense and far more complex work than its immediate appearance might suggest. Like all of Lean's films, this one has impeccable formal beauty and a workmanship of many carats. The plot anecdotes are concise and the events that take place in the film, though numerous, are not ove…More
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