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Director
Paul Mercier
Credits
Producer: Fiach MacConghail. Writer: Paul Mercier
Principal Cast
Sean McGinley, Barry Ward, Karl Quinn
Category
ShortIrish Language
The “oral Irish”, a compulsory state exam in the Irish language is satirised in this short from Paul Mercier. Sean McGinley plays the examiner who encounters the exam’s absurdities, as he tests students whose talent in the language ranges from passable to non-existent in this Irish language. His patience is tested until he finally encounters a troubled young man with a more impressive grasp of the language. [No subtitles]
18 minutes, Ireland, 1998, Colour
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN 18:00
BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY 11:00, 15:45, 20:40
I’M STILL HERE 12:20, 17:40
INGMAR BERGMAN: PERSONA 15.30
INGMAR BERGMAN: WILD STRAWBERRIES 13.15
THE BRUTALIST (DIGITAL) 16:00
THE LAST SHOWGIRL 11:00, 20:50
VERMIGLIO 13:00, 20:10
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