Irish Film Institute -REVIEW ROUNDUP: FIRE OF LOVE, HIT THE ROAD, JOYRIDE & PARIS, TEXAS

REVIEW ROUNDUP: FIRE OF LOVE, HIT THE ROAD, JOYRIDE & PARIS, TEXAS

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!

FIRE OF LOVE

“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  

HIT THE ROAD

“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  

JOYRIDE

“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 

PARIS, TEXAS 

“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 

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GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE

“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 

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