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This week’s new titles at the Irish Film Institute from Friday, 11th November 2022 include Clouded Reveries, No Bears and The Draughtsman’s Contract. Read on for a selection of reviews or pop in to make up your own mind!
“Director Ciara Nic Chormaic’s Irish-language documentary is intimate and illuminating as it sensitively chronicles Ni Ghriofa’s process, interests and influences.” – Screen Daily
“There is a bracing severity and intelligence and moral seriousness to No Bears.” 4/5 – The Guardian
“Iranian dissident’s brave and brilliant act of defiance.” – Financial Times
“No Bears is an inventive act of defiance.” 4/5 – The Scotsman
“This is a daring and brave film that, in a sense, is about the power of film itself. It’s also great cinema.” – The Spectator
“Greenaway’s arch tale of sexual and political manipulation has not lost its power to bewilder and compel.” 5/5 – The Guardian
“What we have here is a tantalizing puzzle, wrapped in eroticism and presented with the utmost elegance. I have never seen a film quite like it.” 4/5 – Roger Ebert
“Film noir at its finest, a template of the genre, etc. Billy Wilder in full swing, Barbara Stanwyck’s finest hour, and Fred MacMurray makes a great chump.” 5/5 – Empire
“Few other directors have made so many films that were so taut, savvy, cynical and, in many different ways and tones, funny.” 4/5 – Roger Ebert
“Orson Welles gave one of his most Shakespearean performances as an ageing, corrupt police chief in this remarkable melodrama.” 5/5 – The Guardian
“Dark, atmospheric story of crime and corruption.” 4/5 – Roger Ebert
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT 15:30
CHASING THE LIGHT 13:20, 18:20 (+Q&A)
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 18:10
QUEER 15.20 (OC), 20.30
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE 15:40
THE UNIVERSAL THEORY 13:00, 20:40
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