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Director
Lance Daly
Credits
Producers: Arcadiy Golubovich Macdara Kelleher Jonathan Loughran Tim O'Hair
Writers: PJ Dillon Pierce Ryan Additional material by Lance Daly Eugene O'Brien
Principal Cast
Hugo Weaving James Frecheville Stephen Rea Freddie Fox Barry Keoghan Moe Dunford Sarah Greene
Category
Feature
Given the number of films which have taken their inspiration from Ireland’s troubled history, the lack of those that depict the events of the Great Famine is all the more noticeable, and so credit is due to director Lance Daly (Kisses) for tackling a subject whose tragic scale seems to have proved overly daunting to previous filmmakers. When the taciturn Feeney (James Frecheville) deserts from fighting for the British Army in Afghanistan, he returns to a country ravaged and starving, with many of his own family among the dead. Outraged at the injustices he sees perpetrated by rent collectors, law enforcement, and English landowners, he seeks vengeance, pursued by former comrade Hannah (Hugo Weaving). Mixing history with the tropes of Westerns and revenge thrillers, Daly has created a significant and long overdue addition to the Irish canon. Notes by Kevin Coyne Listen to our Q&A with director Lance Daly here.
99 minutes, Ireland-Luxembourg, 2018, 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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