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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
A PRIVATE LIFE 18.00 (+ Q&A)
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: LET’S DANCE! (PROGRAMME 2) 12.30
BACKROOMS 15.40
BOOGIE NIGHTS (4K RESTORATION) 15.05
CACTUS PEARS 15.40
DISCLOSURE DAY (70mm) 20.25 (Digital)
NINO 18.15
OBSESSION 20.45
STRICTLY BALLROOM (4K RESTORATION) 13.00, 20.55
THE LAST VIKING 13.10, 18.10
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH 11.00
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