Bloom

Year: 2003

Runtime: 113 mins

Language: English

Director: Sean Walsh

RomanceDrama

Adapted from James Joyce’s Ulysses, Bloom follows a single extraordinary day—June 16, 1904—delving into the inner lives of Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and Leopold Bloom, offering a vivid portrait of their thoughts, desires and the rhythm of early‑twentieth‑century Dublin.

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Ulysses: The book behind Bloom

One Dublin Day Expands through the Thoughts, Bodies, Memories, Arguments, and Desires of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom · by James Joyce

Why this book?

Sean Walsh's film follows 16 June 1904 through Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, retaining Dublin locations, Bloom's errands and funeral attendance, Stephen's intellectual and spiritual estrangement, the men's eventual meeting, Molly's relationship with Blazes Boylan, and her concluding interior monologue. It selects and rearranges episodes from a novel whose eighteen chapters continually change verbal form, translating streams of thought, fantasy, memory, and bodily detail into voice-over and visual sequences. The film is a direct adaptation of Joyce's characters and one-day structure, necessarily reducing the book's stylistic experiments and encyclopedic range.

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