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Director
Peter Mackie Burns
Credits
Producers: Valentina Brazzini, Tristan Goligher, Alan Maher, John Wallace.
Cinematographer: Adam Scarth.
Writer: Mark O'Halloran
Principal Cast
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Tom Glynn-Carney, Monica Dolan, Sophie Jo Wasson.
Category
FeatureLGBTQIA+
At 46, Dubliner Colm (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) has a comfortable life: a managerial job in the city’s docks; a home in a leafy suburb with two healthy teenage children; and a kind loyal wife, Claire (Monica Dolan). But his emotional and financial stability is threatened when his destructive, alcoholic father dies; his workplace undergoes a foreign takeover and he is made redundant after 30 years of service. Drinking heavily and unable to confide in Claire, he is drawn again and again to Jay (Tom Glynn-Carney) a 19 year old who dabbles in prostitution. Their sexual encounters and tentative friendship become Colm’s only solace in his increasingly fraught life. Rialto explores grief, fatherhood, masculinity, and the complexity of loving relationships in this taut, unpredictable drama directed by Peter Mackie Burns (Daphne) and based on a screenplay by Mark O’Halloran (Adam & Paul, Garage) – with a riveting central performance by Vaughan-Lawlor (Love/Hate, Maze).
93 minutes, Ireland, 2019, Colour
AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: CLERKS 18.20
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (PROGRAMME 1) 12.50 12.50
CROSSING 13.00, 18.10
HEART OF AN OAK 13.10
LA CHIMERA 15.45
SHAYDA 15.30, 20.30
SLEEP 13.40
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 20.50
THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW 18.30
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 20.40
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