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Director
Tom Collins
Credits
Producer: Tom Collins, Jackie Larkin. Writer: Tom Collins
Principal Cast
Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Brendan Conroy
Category
FeatureIrish LanguageLiterature
An eloquent drama about lives that dwindled away, Kings shifts between the Irish and English language as it sees five immigrants from the Connemara Gaeltacht confronted with the poverty of their lives in London when the sixth of their number, Jackie, is found dead on a railway-line. Construction boss Joe (Colm Meaney) battles a cocaine addiction whilst down-and-out friends Jap (Donal O’Kelly) and Git (Brendan Conroy) battle a habit of their own: alcoholism, a problem destroying the marriage of another of their gang, Máirtín (Barry Barnes). Only small businessman Shay (Donncha Crowley) seems to have his life in order. As the five prepare for Jackie’s funeral their nostalgia for Ireland and their complicity in what was likely Jackie’s suicide emerges. Noteworthy for its uncommon but plausible linguistic palette, Kings is developed from a play by Jimmy Murphy and enacts a painfully honest representation of the lives of five Irish immigrants.
85 minutes, Ireland/United Kingdom, 2007, Colour
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HOARD 15.45 (OC), 20.30
LA CHIMERA 11:00, 17:40
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 13:20, 20:30
ROME, OPEN CITY 15:50
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:00, 18:05
TIGER STRIPES 13:45, 18:30
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