Neil Jordan

Jordan published fiction in Ireland before he directed. His films are fairy tales and thrillers about people living double lives. In The Crying Game an IRA man guarding a kidnapped British soldier promises to look up the soldier's girlfriend in London. Interview with the Vampire has Louis tell a reporter two hundred years of his life. The Company of Wolves turns Angela Carter's stories into a girl's dream of the woods.

Signature

• The Troubles and Irish politics (The Crying Game).
• Gothic fairy tale and horror (The Company of Wolves, Interview with the Vampire).
• Obsessive love and jealousy (The End of the Affair).
• Stephen Rea in many of the films.