James Joyce's Women (1985)

In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora remembering their time together, Flanagan captures the era and the author in lyrical detail. As Sylvia Beach, the woman who first published Ulysses, new dimensions concerning the importance of Nora in Joyce's literary visions of women emerge, and when Flanagan interprets Joyce characters like Molly Bloom or a washerwoman from Finnegan's Wake, the beauty of Joyce's language shines through the melodious words.

IMDB

This is a fantastic effort, a virtual one-woman show. Flannigan takes daunting, challenging material and makes it poetically lucid. The highlight comes in a long, sexually explicit monologue where she shows wonderful comfort with her body and expresses aspects of the feminine psyche not often seen in films. Highly recommended

IMDB Reviewer

James Joyce's explicit insights into womenkind have been stunningly brought to the screen in this dramatic study of six women drawn from both the life and works of the Irish literary giant.
Passionately narrated by Joyce's "widow," the film depicts the writer's intimate relationships with three key women in his life: wife, benefactress and publisher, as well as dramatizing three lusty and lyrical fictional women this great writer created.
Set at the turn-of-the-century and based on some of Joyce's most controversial passages, this sensual film written and starring Fionnula Flanagan has rightly been hailed as a dramatic masterpiece.