Dance First

Nov 3, 2023

1h 40m

★ 7.0

Think later.

Overview

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.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

2LE Media

Film Constellation

Proton Cinema

Sky Arts

uMedia

Dance First Trailers

Cast

Samuel Beckett

Gabriel Byrne

James Joyce

Aidan Gillen

Suzanne

Sandrine Bonnaire

Young Samuel

Fionn O'Shea

Barbara

Maxine Peake

Nora Barnacle

Bronagh Gallagher

May Beckett

Lisa Dwyer Hogg

Sylvia Beach

Caroline Boulton

Lucia Joyce

Gráinne Good

5 year old Samuel

Cillian Hollywood

Adam

Patrik Piró

Younger Suzanne

Léonie Lojkine

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