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Director
Kieron J. Walsh
Credits
Producer: Lynda Myles. Writer: Roddy Collins
Principal Cast
Peter McDonald, Flora Montgomery, Pauline McLynn, Don Wycherley
Category
Feature
With several of his novels already adapted for film and television, Roddy Doyle here wrote directly for the screen with this quirky romantic-comedy about an introverted cinéphile and the rebellious law-breaker who encourages him to live. The cinéphile is Brendan (Peter McDonald), a school-teacher more interested in his films than his friends. A chance encounter with the unruly Trudy (Flora Montgomery) changes all this; the pair begin an unlikely relationship that continues even after Brendan discovers Trudy’s predilection for late-night burglary. As he embraces the criminal lifestyle Brendan justifies this relationship by imagining it in terms of the films he so dearly loves, allowing director Kieron J. Walsh a liberal sprinkling of film allusions. This approach never becomes derivative and these references amount to a playful cinematic homage, in this intelligent, romantic rollick through modern Dublin.
95 minutes, UK/Ireland, 2000, Colour
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (PROGRAMME 2) 12.50
CROSSING 15.20, 20.55
HEART OF AN OAK 18:00
LA CHIMERA 20.30
SHAYDA 13.00 (OC), 18.00
SLEEP 13.15
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 18.30
THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW 13.40
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 16.00
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