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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
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MCGAHERN: SHORT STORIES (DOUBLE BILL) 13.20
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY 11:00, 20:10
IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: BEYOND THE AGGRESSIVES: 25 YEARS LATER 20.30
IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: BUTCHES AND BOYS 18.15
IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: OUTITUDE 13.30
IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: SCANNÁIN SAPPHIC (IRISH LESBIAN SHORTS) 15.30
KIDNAPPED 14:30
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 16:10, 20:50
PERFECT DAYS 17:20
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.30, 13.50, 18.30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 11.20
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