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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
BALLYWALTER 13.50, 18.10
FLORA AND SON 13.20, 21.00
OUSMANE SEMBÈNE: BLACK GIRL + BAROM SARRET 18.30
PAST LIVES 15.40, 20.30
STOP MAKING SENSE 40TH ANNIVERSARY 19.00
THE EXORCIST (50TH ANNIVERSARY) 16.20
THE OLD OAK 16.00, 20.20
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