Name that Movie!

August 12, 2008 1:35 PM

Ciaran Hinds is an Irish actor who played one of the Israeli operatives in Spielberg's Munich. I saw a snippet of a movie in which he played a bald literature professor. There was a red-haired woman who was his co-star. Does anyone know the name of the film? Thanks.
posted by tesseract420 to media & arts (6 comments total)

Circle of Friends?
posted by Dasein at 1:41 PM on August 12, 2008

Here is his IMDB page. The movie you are probably looking for is Cirlce of Friends.
posted by triggerfinger at 1:44 PM on August 12, 2008

No, it wasn't set in 1950's Ireland. It was set in 1970's-1990's New York (I think). I only saw a few minutes of it. I looked at the IMDB database but so few of his films carry photographs of his co-stars.
posted by tesseract420 at 2:09 PM on August 12, 2008

That sounds sort of, kind of, maybe just a little bit like Margot at the Wedding, in which Hinds plays a fiction writer of an ill-defined sort. I don't remember him being bald, but there was definitely a redhead involved, and "set in 1970's-1990's New York (I think)" perfectly describes Noah Baumbach's hazy brand of nostalgia, if nothing else.
posted by dyoneo at 3:31 PM on August 12, 2008

Rome has a redhead, but nothing else matches :)
posted by spacefire at 4:35 PM on August 12, 2008

He had hair in Margot at the Wedding. I've seen quite a few of his films on the IMDB list but nothing is ringing a bell. Are you sure it's him?
posted by brujita at 8:56 PM on August 12, 2008