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Director
Maya Derrington
Credits
Producer: Nicky Gogan
Category
Documentary
Pyjama Girls principally focuses on the lives of two charismatic inner-city Dublin teens, Lauren and Tara, as they roam the streets, sporting nightwear for daywear; a curious cultural (and purely female) phenomenon currently spreading the globe. In a series of intimate vignettes, we gain a vivid insight into their daily lives: the girls' tenacity amidst the at times grim uncertainty that surrounds them and the oft-quotable bravado that rolls with it. Director Maya Derrington's emphatic feature debut is one of many inspired home-grown feature documentaries to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Crisply edited by Paul Rowley and featuring a delicious minimalist electronic score from Dennis McNulty, Derrington's triumph is to craft a keenly observed tour-de-force that, in the grand tradition of all great non-fiction cinema, challenges our way of seeing.
Notes by Derek O'Connor.
70 minutes, Ireland, 2010, Colour
A REAL PAIN 13:00, 18:10, 20:35
NICKEL BOYS 15:10, 20:10
NOSFERATU (35MM & DIGITAL) 15:00 (35mm), 17:50 (35mm), 20:30 (Digital, OC)
SPIRITED AWAY 13:10
WE LIVE IN TIME 12:50, 15:50, 18:10
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