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What Richard Did

    • Director

      Lenny Abrahamson

    • Credits

      Producer: Ed Guiney. Writer: Malcolm Campbell

    • Principal Cast

      Jack Reynor, Lars Mikkelsen, Roisin Murphy

  • Category

    Feature

The third feature from Lenny Abrahamson is an extraordinary portrait of a golden-boy gone awry. What Richard Did sees the seemingly perfect life of Dublin teenager Richard Karlsen (Jack Reynor) collapse around him when he makes a terrible mistake. Intelligent, athletic, and respected by young and old alike, Richard leads his affluent Dublin friends in drinking and socialising their way through a carefree summer. Striking up a relationship with local girl Lara (Roisin Murphy) Richard alienates teammate and Lara’s ex-boyfriend Conor (Sam Keeley), beginning a dispute between the two boys that escalates into changing the lives of himself and his friends. Having explored Ireland’s social misfits and outsiders in his previous work, Abrahamson here trains his meditative lens on Dublin’s elite and explores the consequences of misadventure in that world.
 
Awards:
Best Actor (Film - Jack Reynor) Award at the 10th Irish Film and Television Awards 2013
Best Film Award at the 10th Irish Film and Television Awards 2013    
Best Film Director at the 10th Irish Film and Television Awards 2013                                                      
Best Script at the 10th Irish Film and Television Awards 2013                                                                  
Best Editing at the 10th Irish Film and Television Awards 2013      

87 minutes, Ireland, 2012, Colour

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