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This week’s titles at the Irish Film Institute from Friday, 7th July 2023 include Name Me Lawand, Smoking Causes Coughing and The Damned Don’t Cry. Read on for a selection of reviews or pop in to make up your own mind!
“Heartfelt and valuable” 4/5 — The Guardian
“Moving and politically prescient” 4/5 — Little White Lies
“Lovelace has returned to tortured interiority for this moving portrait” 4/5 — The Times
“Considerately crafted, mediating between subject and viewer through a language of elegant impressionism” — Sight and Sound
“A wildly inventive anthology” 4/5 — The Irish Times
“Refreshingly immature” 4/5 — The Guardian
“A superior collection of shaggy dog jokes.” 3/4 — Roger Ebert
“Dupieux’s gift for surreal comedy is in full bloom” Critic’s Pick — The New York Times
“Has enough fun to ensure we do too” — Variety
“Performances by first-time actors Aïcha Tebbae and Abdellah El Hajjouji are raw and electrifying.” 5/5 — The Irish Times
“Vivid and powerful” 4/5 — The Guardian
“An entirely distinct, compassionately-crafted survival tale.” — Little White Lies
“Knits disparate generations and geographies of big- and small-screen melodrama into a single, refined aesthetic” — Variety
BLUE MOON 18.10
BUGONIA 15.40 (35mm)
DIE MY LOVE 13.30
HORSESHOE 16.00
IRISH FOCUS: WE ONLY WANT THE EARTH: THE LIFE AND IDEAS OF JAMES CONNOLLY 18.20
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 13.00, 20.50
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 18.00
PILLION 13.20, 20.40
SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE) 20.20
THE SHINING (45th ANNIVERSARY) 15.20 (OC)
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