As IMDB cites, Lara Belmot will play leading role in Tv series that will be made in 2009. It is drama, an ecranisation of Edna O`Brien`s “Wild Decembers”. Lara will star alongside Matt Ryan as Bugler and Owen McDonnell as Joseph
“Wild Decembers” rewiew:
“Violet Hill, fluid, flowing, a brindled phantom upon the mountain in the early morning, a vision that streaked back and forth like a painted picture and then again in the dusk, becoming one with the dusk, except for her eyes, which glowed wildly.” This description of a magnificent racing greyhound illustrates the wild, dark, stream-of-consciousness style which has made Edna O’Brien something of a legend in her long career. Her 22nd work of fiction, Wild Decembers, is as stormy and bittersweet as its title, telling an age-old tale in a way that sweeps away the cobwebs and exposes the bare nerves of human pride.
O’Brien has inspired comparisons with some of the literary greats, including Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Flannery O’Connor and even Colette. But her style is very much her own, often bitter and acidic, yet paradoxically brimming with rambunctious, sensual life. Wild Decembers is all about the struggle between two men to claim a patch of land on a mountain in Cloontha, western Ireland. The sister of one of the men falls in love with the rival. What could be more timeworn, even cliched, than a simple struggle for dominance and birthright, complicated by forbidden love? Yet O’Brien’s telling is so masterful that it is as if this situation has never been heard of before.
The two men, Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler, are distantly related, “the warring sons of warring sons,” locked in “the crazed and phantom lust for a lip of land.” Brennan’s people have been farming on the land for generations, so he sees Mick Bugler as an interloper and a pretender. Bugler is not even Irish, not properly Irish anyway, having come over from a sheep station in Australia to claim his supposed inheritance on the mountain called Slieve Clochan.
And then there is Breege, Joseph’s sensitive and withdrawn younger sister, who has given over her life to caring for her brother. Her considerable passion has been deeply suppressed by a sheltered and stifling existence until Mick Bugler drives in on his shiny-new tractor, stirring in her feelings she has never dared acknowledge before. Though Mick and Joseph make a rather forced show of friendship at the beginning, Bugler’s intentions to encroach on Brennan’s land soon become clear. Even the suggestion that Breege may be attracted to Bugler causes Joseph to subject her to a vicious beating which leaves her cowed with terror.
This is the first of many shocks in Wild Decembers. Up to this point, Joseph strikes us as a broody and obsessive, but basically decent, human being who only wants what he believes is rightfully his. The beating strips away this veneer to reveal a seething, hateful jealousy that will eventually drive him to even more desperate acts of violence. The roots of this hatred are impossible to find, buried deep in past generations, fueled and fed both by historic injustice and even the most innocent acts in the present day.
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