#10. Brooklyn
Like all the best romances, ‘Brooklyn’ is about so much more than just boy-meets-girl. It’s about leaving home, all your memories, and the pain that comes with that. It’s about the unavoidable conflict between love and family. Not often enough do we get a love story this focused and in tune with the emotional dynamics of real relationships. Anyone who has ever left the only loved to better themselves somewhere far away will feel every pain Eilis (Saoirse Ronan, marvelous), an Irish immigrant coming into New York, feels. If you cannot relate to that, you will surely get swept away when she meets Tony (Emory Cohen), a modest Italian boy who showers her with love. Throw in an unexpected loss, a return trip to Ireland, and a new beau in the form of the inescapable Domhnall Glesson, and you are in for one of 2015’s most dreamy, heartfelt dramas.
Like all the best romances, ‘Brooklyn’ is about so much more than just boy-meets-girl. It’s about leaving home, all your memories, and the pain that comes with that. It’s about the unavoidable conflict between love and family. Not often enough do we get a love story this focused and in tune with the emotional dynamics of real relationships. Anyone who has ever left the only loved to better themselves somewhere far away will feel every pain Eilis (Saoirse Ronan, marvelous), an Irish immigrant coming into New York, feels. If you cannot relate to that, you will surely get swept away when she meets Tony (Emory Cohen), a modest Italian boy who showers her with love. Throw in an unexpected loss, a return trip to Ireland, and a new beau in the form of the inescapable Domhnall Glesson, and you are in for one of 2015’s most dreamy, heartfelt dramas.