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Director
Aoife McArdle
Credits
Producer: Andrew Freedman
Writer: Aoife McArdle
Principal Cast
Ann Skelly Ryan Lincoln Ryan McParland Conall Keating Catriona Ennis John Lynch
Category
Feature
This atmospheric, hallucinatory drama about youth at risk in small-town Ireland represents an auspicious feature debut for Northern Irish director Aoife McArdle, who brings to the cinema screen the dynamic visual sense she honed through working on celebrated music videos. Seventeen-year-old Candice (Ann Skelly) lives in a gloomy northern seaside village beset by gang violence, and reeling from the recent disappearance of a young boy; ‘things were a lot safer here during the Troubles’, proclaims her police detective father (John Lynch). A sufferer of chronic epileptic seizures, Candice has recurring visions of enigmatic young Jacob (Ryan Lincoln), a figure both alluring and frightening, who bears a striking resemblance to a member of the vicious local gang, led by Conor (Ryan McParland) and Dermot (Conall Keating). Notes by David O’Mahony Classification: 18 Awards Best Breakthrough Feature, Boston Irish Film Festival 2018
102 minutes, Ireland, 2017, Colour
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN 15:30
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME – MÍ NA GAEILGE (DOUBLE BILL) 12.10
BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY 16:30
I’M STILL HERE 13:40, 19:20
IFI & DIFF: DIVINE INTERVENTION (35MM) – ELIA SULEIMAN RETROSPECTIVE 14.00
IFI & DIFF: IT MUST BE HEAVEN – ELIA SULEIMAN RETROSPECTIVE 16.45
INGMAR BERGMAN: THE SILENCE 12.00
THE BRUTALIST (DIGITAL) 18:50
THE LAST SHOWGIRL 13:30, 20:45
VERMIGLIO 11:10, 18:20
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