Irish Film Institute -REVIEW ROUND-UP: NAME ME LAWAND, SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING & THE DAMNED DON’T CRY

REVIEW ROUND-UP: NAME ME LAWAND, SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING & THE DAMNED DON’T CRY

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!

 

NAME ME LAWAND

“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

SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING

“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

THE DAMNED DON’T CRY

“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 

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