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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 20.20
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: CONCRETE PROOF (PROGRAMME 1) 12.40
EFFI O BLAENAU 13.15, 18.20
ROSEBUSH PRUNING 13.30, 18.10
THE INVITE 15.40, 20.30
THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD 15.30
THE ODYSSEY 12.10 16.00 19.50
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