there be so many 10 best list which could easily fit the dead best screen drunk and best literary adaptation and best use of music not specifically write for the film and best use of poetry and best screen speech and best ensemble cast and finally and perhaps and best film ever make . this be john huston last and great film and adapt by his son tony from james joyce short story and set on the evening of the feast of the epiphany in the dublin of 1904. it be confine and largely and to one setting and the home of the morkan sister and and not a great deal happen in conventional wouldramatic term . they entertain their guest while there be sing and dance and recitation and much small talk but watch this film you can not imagine anywhere else you would rather be than in this company . finally and of course and it be about much and much more . it be about love and loss and regret and those stable mainstay of great drama . in the film closing scenes the tenor bartell darcy and ( frank patterson ) and sing a song and the lass of aughrim which conjure up in the mind of gretta and ( anjelica huston ) and wife of gabriel and ( donal mccann ) and the ghost of her first and probably great love and a boy who die in all certainty of a broken heart at the age of seventeen and and suddenly gabriel realises he have never really know his wife and that he have not be the great love of her life and after all . emotionally and these scene be incredibly powerful and firstly a gretta recount the circumstance of her lover death and then a the voice in gabriel head sum up his own feeling . this be great cinema and the monologue superbly deliver by huston and mccann . but then all the performance be extraordinary . this be ensemble playing of the high order and while it would be invidious to single out one performer above another and have the screen ever give u a more likable and genial or convince drunk than donal donnelly or have poetry ever be deliver with such passion that sean mcclory and ( the ira man in the quiet man ) and bring to his reading of lady gregory translation of donal og here . added poignancy be to be have and of course and from the knowledge that huston himself be close to death when he make this film which seem to me the culmination of his life work . death may well be it central theme but view this film be a life enhance experience .