Sky Debuts Trailer for James Marsh’s ‘Dance First,’ Starring Gabriel Byrne, Ahead of World Premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival (Exclusive)

European pay TV platform Sky has released the trailer for Sky Original film “Dance First,” ahead of its world premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival on Sept.

30.The film is directed by BAFTA and Academy Award winner James Marsh (“The Theory of Everything”) and written by BAFTA winner Neil Forsyth (“Guilt”).

“Dance First” will be released in movie theaters in the U.K.

and Ireland in November, on Sky Cinema in those countries in December and on Sky Arts and Freeview next year.In “Dance First,” Golden Globe winner Gabriel Byrne (“The Usual Suspects”) plays Samuel Beckett with young Beckett played by Fionn O’Shea (“Normal People”) in a sweeping account of the life of this 20th century literary icon.

Parisian bon vivant, World War II resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse, Beckett lived a life of many parts.

In this playful film the audience sees his life…

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