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This week’s new titles at the Irish Film Institute from Friday, July 29th 2022 include Fire of Love, Hit the Road, Joyride and Paris, Texas. Read on for a selection of reviews or pop in to make up your own mind!
“Hands down, the documentary of the year” – Rolling Stone
“A spellbinding experience” – Variety
“Fire of Love is a surprise; a dazzling, seductive, nature-meets-romance documentary” – Vogue
“The most enchanting American nonfiction offering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, director Sara Dosa’s Fire Of Love is a one-of-a-kind story” – The AV Club
“Their story makes for this year’s best documentary to date, and a film that demands to be seen on the largest possible screen.” 4/5 – The Irish Times
“Dosa’s film is a slick, moving and cutely Herzogian portrait of this loving, monomaniacal couple who straddled the line between the eccentric and the earnest.” – Little White Lies
“Dosa’s Fire of Love is one of those rare documentaries that arrives once or twice a decade to leave audiences awe-struck by its wonder and terrors.” 5/5 – The Upcoming
“One of the year’s most electric pictures.” 4/5 – The Financial Times
“Lovely, beautifully composed debut feature drenched in a subtle but urgent political meaning” 5/5 – The Guardian
“The film’s tender emotional core is its greatest asset, which is enhanced by inventive tonal shifts and complemented by incredibly fleshed-out characters, a uniformly brilliant cast and naturalistic dialogue that keeps it from lurching into the terrain of sterile realism” – Little White Lies
‘ “Hit the Road” Is the Quiet, Low-Key Masterpiece of the Year” – Rolling Stone
“A filmmaker that both honors his father’s ongoing legacy, and inaugurates his unique, very own voice” 4/4 – Roger Ebert
“What makes ‘Hit the Road’ so memorable and devastating is the way it explores normal life under duress.” – The New York Times
“A lovely comedy of the most serious hue” 4/5 – The Irish Times
“There is a sparseness to Hit the Road that reveals the intuitiveness of Panahi’s filmmaking” – Vulture
“Another powerhouse performance from Olivia Colman makes Joyride a disarming experience” 3/5 – Empire
“Emerging talent Charlie Reid gives a promising performance as Mully, his chemistry with Colman makes for a compelling watch” – Totally Dublin
“Joyride is a treat and audiences will relate to every tender second, every element of whimsical synergy, and every symbiotic piece of intercommunication. It is just wonderful to watch.” – Film Ireland
“The best scenes show the growing bond between Joy and Mully while Emer Reynolds as director provides her always-deft touch” – Law Society Gazette
“Colman and Reid work beautifully together” – The Newstatesman
“Emmy-winning docmaker Emer Reynolds makes her fiction debut with a light, sentimental escapade powered by its star’s tragicomic gifts.” – Variety
“After almost 40 years, Wim Wenders’s Euro-Americanist masterpiece Paris, Texas feels as richly mysterious and mesmeric as ever” 5/5 – The Guardian
“Enigmatic and fascinating” 5/5 – Empire
“The movie lacks any of the gimmicks used to pump up emotion and add story interest, because it doesn’t need them: It is fascinated by the sadness of its own truth” 4/4 – Roger Ebert
“Thompson has always been a terrific actor, but she reaches a new plane here, a place where her vulnerability as a person and her confidence as a performer mesh into something glorious.” – Time
“It’s shockingly watchable” – Headstuff
“Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack’s chemistry is intense and each give brilliant performances.” – IGN
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MCGAHERN: SHORT STORIES (PROGRAMME 1) 13:10
EAT / SLEEP / CHEER / REPEAT 14.00, 20.40
HOARD 15.30, 18.00
LA CHIMERA 13:00, 18:10
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 16:00
ROME, OPEN CITY 20:55
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:00
THE DAYS OF TREES 18.30 (+ Q&A)
TIGER STRIPES 15:45, 20:55
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