Cork director's 'Brooklyn' is taking Irish cinema to new heights

Cork director John Crowley has followed up True Detective with a big screen adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s tale of Irish America, writes Ed Power

IT HAS been a year of contrasts for Cork film and television director John Crowley. Over the summer he was caught up in the critical backlash against the controversial finale of season two of HBO’s True Detective. Crowley had overseen the climactic 90 minute episode.

But that was then. As we meet in a hotel in Dublin he is now the toast of the industry, his big-screen adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s emigrant tale Brooklyn acclaimed as one of the year’s most important movies, with lead actress Saoirse Ronan regarded as a near certainty for an Oscar nomination. You’ll forgive him if he seems a little disorientated.