Martin Doyle

So that was a pretty sweet memory to have.

And in fact, through friends of a friends, he even sent me a video a couple of years ago.

I think he was down in the south of Spain of him promising to sort out the T-shirt.

I'm still waiting, by the way.

But again, it's nice that it's nice that he's still thinking about it.

I just love it.

I'm not saying it's the greatest movie of all time or anything, but it's just one that has stuck with me and I've watched, it's probably one of the films that I've watched several times because it bears repeating.

I don't know if any of the listeners were at MOLLE, the Museum of Literary Ireland, they did a kind of a live...

like a promenade theatre adaptation of it, which was wonderful too.

But the film, it was John Huston's last film, starring his daughter, Angelica Huston, alongside Donald McCann, who's one of my favourite actors, both stage and film.

There's so much to love about the film.

For such a quintessentially Dublin story, ironically, it was filmed in California.

But

Like to me, it's kind of part of the Christmas tradition.

I think the IFI shows it every year on the 6th of January on the Epiphany, just to kind of mark the occasion.

Like that's the day that...

um the the the movie is set a bit like bloomsday is set on june the 16th um like there's humor in it there's the kind of the drunken ne'er-do-well son um who turns up late and makes an embarrassment of himself there's a poignancy because it's really about a husband uh realizing that his wife who he thinks is

is thinking romantic thoughts about him, is actually thinking romantic thoughts about a young man who died when she was young in Galway.

Obviously, the story is beautifully written.

It's a masterpiece.