Parents' Guide to Dance First

Parents need to know that Dance First is a unique biopic of Samuel Beckett (Gabriel Byrne), one of Ireland's most famous writers. As Beckett approaches the end of his life, he looks back on his past, coming to the conclusion that life should be lived to its fullest; to dance first, before we pass. Set throughout the 20th-century, the film explores Beckett's humble beginnings to his time as a French resistance fighter (the rise of Nazism is depicted) to becoming a Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Beckett's mother is depicted as being homophobic and men behave misogynistic when they dismiss women who have been wronged, depressed, or merely don't conform to societal norms, as being "mad." Beckett himself has an affair, though there's no nudity or sex depicted. Characters smoke and drink throughout and there is some violence in the film, as a man is stabbed on the street by a pimp. A dead body in an open casket is also shown. Occasional language includes "f--k" and "bloody." Fionn O'Shea plays Beckett as a younger man in flashback scenes.

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