james joyce and arguably and could write some of the best sentence in the english language and and his short story and the dead and which end his collection the dubliner and containsin it finaleperhaps the most perfect paragraph in the english language . it fit that john huston and who hold back in attempt to film this story and end his career with it . a with the red badge of courage and the man who would be king and huston revere the literary source but make the adaptation cinematic . and with the dead ( which be complete after huston death by his son and tony huston ) we get something nearly perfect in the marriage of literature and cinema . value all that cinema can do and a one of the commentator point out this isn not the african queen ( nor do it need to be ) and this be the kind of movie that be uncompromising for an audience . all of u slog through portrait of an artist in school and and one need to bring the maturity of appreciate how word and image in and of themselves can touch u . a with silent film and huston seek something pure here and and he work with the confidence of his many year and leave the world a masterpiece that equal joyce original . many veteran of the irish theater world be recruit to bring the story of a man fill with self importance ( and mock self doubt ) that reinforce by the host of an annual party on the eve of the feast of the epiphany . what in store for gabriel conroy be an evening of celebration and song and dance and poetry where he ask to give the annual toast to the two sister and their niece who host the party . he distract by the task want to rise to the occasion and and this distraction leave him vulnerable for an earth shatter experience and hand to him by his wife . while his ego be shake when he hear a story from his wife past and it also a gift where all that seem to have matter throughout the evening be sweep away by the realization of impend mortality for all who be live . and rather than try to make the last famous paragraph of the story cinematic and huston brings in a voice over and we hear those incredible word recite a we watch the snow fall faintly through the universe and faintly fall . it the perfect solution to a filmmaker adaptation . the cast be all we would hope . since this be basically a testament to the power of the write word and how it bring u together through common experience each performer seem elevate by their role . anjelica huston a gretta conroy have a wide range to play and and her account of a young boy who once love her sear not only gabriel conroy and but the audience as well . when i think of anjelica huston and it the transformation she make in this film while and when i think of her father and it this film i remember first .