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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
BLUE MOON 13.40
BUGONIA 20.30 (Digital)
DIE MY LOVE 20.40
HORSESHOE 12.00, 16.00
IFI KINOPOLIS: FRANZ 18:00
IFI KINOPOLIS: THIS IS NOT HAPPENING 16.10
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 11.30, 18.10
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 14.00
PILLION 11.20, 17.00
SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE) 13.50
THE SHINING (45th ANNIVERSARY) 19.30
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