BROOKLYN is a place you won’t want to leave if you take up Keighley Film Club’s suggestion to visit.

One reviewer said he could have hung out with the characters in the movie Brooklyn for hours.

The film club is inviting people to take emotional rollercoaster ride to New York when it screens the film at Keighley Picture House on Sunday, February 21.

Soairse Ronan and Emory Cohen start in a rich period drama that tugs at heartstrings while satisfying the mind, according to critics.

Film club spokesman Alan Watkinson said: “This independent film is a natural story of the girl next door without the twists and special effects usually associated with Hollywood.

“It conveys and contrasts the emotional struggle between love and family.”

Ronan plays a young Irish girl Eilis who, wanting to better the life she has in a small Irish village, is persuaded by her sister to travel to New York.

Once there she lands a dream opportunity to work whilst living with other Irish girls in a boarding house run by Julie Walters.

Eilis meets an Italian plumber and falls in love with him, but the idyll of their courtship gets shattered when she learns that her sister has died back in Ireland.

After a hurriedly secret marriage in Brooklyn, she returns home, only to become attracted to another man in Ireland.

So which of her two loves in two countries should she choose? Her choice will lead to different futures – the ties of family in rural Ireland versus the opportunities in America.

Mr Watkinson said the beautiful and sensitive love story, ably directed by John Crowley, brought to life Coln Toibin’s novel through Nick Hornby’s excellent screen writing.

He added: “Ronan gives an exceptional performance as a leading actress with at least one reviewer comparing her with Jennifer Lawrence."

Brooklyn is screened at the Picture House in North Street at 6pm.