Dance First | Official Trailer - Gabriel Byrne
Literary genius Samuel Beckett (Byrne) lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, WWII Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, recluse. But despite all the adulation that came his way, he was a man acutely aware of his own failings. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos Dance first, think later, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.
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00:00The Nobel Prize for Literature is hereby awarded to Samuel Beckett.
00:07You're a goodest author.
00:14You know this is going to be a journey through your shame.
00:19Isn't everything?
00:23Whose forgiveness do you need the most?
00:25We shall begin with mother.
00:28Did you read my story?
00:30What a waste.
00:32I'm going to Paris and I hope never to return.
00:36I'm ill with regret.
00:38You mean Suzanne?
00:40Hello, Sam.
00:42You might name your scars after her.
00:45I might name my joys as well.
00:48I will never be so happy again.
00:50Because I knew the life that was to come.
00:53Mr. Joyce, my name is Samuel Beckett.
00:56I wanted to make your acquaintance.
00:58The important thing is not what we write, but how we write.
01:03We must write dangerously, Beckett.
01:07Gestapo.
01:08Go.
01:12Even in that horrible place, they couldn't turn off the stars.
01:19Mr. Beckett?
01:21I'm Barbara Bray from the drama department.
01:24It was very nice to meet you.
01:26Don't be absurd.
01:30It has redefined modern literature.
01:33It is a masterpiece.
01:35There will always be a call for titillation.
01:40You used to tell me when you were going to her,
01:43now you're just good.
01:47You must have a great impression of yourself,
01:49that you can take the blame for 32 years and count.
02:00You and I, Sam, were not made for victory.
02:03We won't survive it.
02:04There was joy.
02:08But then, for you, you said,
02:11dance first, think later.
02:16You couldn't wait to get through the pleasure to the pain.