Irish Film Institute -BARGAINTOWN (OPENS DECEMBER 4TH)

BARGAINTOWN (OPENS DECEMBER 4TH)

Director: DAVID JAZAY,JUDITH KLINGER

70 minutes, Germany, 1988, Black and White, Digital


This film was released on Friday 4th December 2015 and is no longer screening. 

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Bargaintown is a prescient meditation on urban decay made by a young German filmmaker in Dublin in 1988. Featuring interviews with antique dealers, barbers and barmen, it is a record of the lives and opinions of a vanished Dublin, years before the Celtic Tiger changed its very fabric. Highlights include an auction at Tormey Brothers, a night of song and dance at the old Workingmen’s Club on Wellington Quay, and performances by veteran bluesman Frank Quigley. The film was rapturously received at its recent Dublin premiere at the IFI Documentary Festival 2015. (Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn)

This digital restoration from 16mm negative elements has been supported by the IFI and by the Goethe-Institut Ireland.

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