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Dance First (2023)

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Think later.

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.

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Cast & Crew

Director
James Marsh
  • Profile picture of Gabriel Byrne
    Samuel Beckett Gabriel Byrne
  • Profile picture of Aidan Gillen
    James Joyce Aidan Gillen
  • Profile picture of Sandrine Bonnaire
    Suzanne Sandrine Bonnaire
  • Profile picture of Fionn O'Shea
    Young Samuel Fionn O'Shea
  • Profile picture of Maxine Peake
    Barbara Maxine Peake
  • Profile picture of Bronagh Gallagher
    Nora Barnacle Bronagh Gallagher
  • Profile picture of Lisa Dwyer Hogg
    May Beckett Lisa Dwyer Hogg
  • Profile picture of Caroline Boulton
    Sylvia Beach Caroline Boulton

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Keywords

  • poet
  • biography
  • writer
  • novelist
  • recluse
  • philanderer
  • 1900s
  • samuel beckett
  • 20th century