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Director
Darragh Byrne
Credits
Producers: Dominic Wright, Jacquelin Kerrin. Writer: Ciaran Creagh
Principal Cast
Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth, Stuart Graham
Category
Feature
Often identified as the indomitable father-figure in The Barrytown Trilogy, Colm Meaney is here the much less resilient Fred Daly who, having returned to Dublin after years abroad is, for reasons that go largely unexplained, living in his permanently parked car over-looking Dublin Bay. This welcome ambiguity and restraint is apparent throughout, as in the portrayal of Finnish piano teacher Jules (Milka Ahlroth), a widow who Fred meets on a jaunt to the swimming pool with fellow car-park dweller Cathal O’Reagan (Colin Morgan), a convivial but troubled 21 year old with an escalating drug problem. Dealing with highly charged issues of homelessness, grief and heroin addiction, Parked offers a refreshing focus on character rather than type, developing the relationships between its protagonists with compassion and humour. Elegantly shot in widescreen during the coldest January in Ireland in twenty-five years, Dublin's coast and docklands look positively icy in this atmospheric and socially-relevant feature debut from director Darragh Byrne.
94 minutes, Ireland/Finland, 2010, Colour
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 15:40, 20:45
KIDNAPPED 13:00, 18:00
PERFECT DAYS 12:50
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:00, 15:20, 18:10, 20:50
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 15:50, 20:30
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