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The Cry of Granuaile

    • Director

      Dónal Foreman

    • Credits

      Producers:
      Liam Beatty,
      Dónal Foreman,
      Edwina Forkin.

      Cinematographer:
      Diana Vidrascu

    • Principal Cast

      Dale Dickey,
      Judith Roddy,
      Andrew Bennett.

  • Category

    Feature

A grieving American filmmaker (Dale Dickey) and her Irish assistant (Judith Roddy) tour the west of Ireland, researching a film about Granuaile, the legendary 16th century rebel and ‘pirate queen’. The women develop an uneasy intimacy as they journey towards a remote Atlantic island, where boundaries begin to blur between past and present, myth and history, dream and reality, presenting a wide-eyed American beguiled by Ireland. Filmed on granular 16mm with a swoony orchestral score, the film is playful but assured in its homage to an earlier cinema aesthetic while the film’s locations provide a majestic backdrop to the action.

The Cry of Granuaile is the first feature funded through the Arts Council’s Authored Works initiative.

Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

82 minutes, Ireland, 2022, Colour

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