Gabriel Byrne plays Samuel Beckett with young Beckett played by Fionn O’Shea in a sweeping account of the life of this 20th century icon. Parisian bon vivant, World War II resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse, Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. In this playful film we see his life through his mistakes and fraught relationships with James Joyce (Aiden Gillen), his wife Suzanne and his lover Barbara Bray (Maxine Peake).

Gabriel Byrne plays Samuel Beckett with young Beckett played by Fionn O’Shea in a sweeping account of the life of this 20th century icon. Parisian bon vivant, World War II resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse, Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. In this playful film we see his life through his mistakes and fraught relationships with James Joyce (Aiden Gillen), his wife Suzanne and his lover Barbara Bray (Maxine Peake).