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Director
Gerard Hurley
Credits
Producer: Gerard Hurley. Writer: Gerard Hurley.
Principal Cast
Karl Johnson, Gerard Hurley, Lili Taylor, Mary Foskett
Category
Feature
Written, directed by and featuring Gerard Hurley, himself a returned emigrant, this low-budget, realist take on the experience of home-coming confronts questions of return, loss, and regret in an engaging drama about a damaged family. Tricked into coming back to Ireland from New York by his father Larry (Karl Johnson), émigré son Jack (Gerard Hurley) finds time has not repaired his fractured relationship with his father. The pair’s old hostilities resurface as Jack develops a relationship with American divorcee Grace (Lili Taylor), whilst their silence regarding the death of family matriarch Rose provides another spot around which their troubles revolve. With characters living under the shadow of an unspoken trauma The Pier seeks to capture a truth about both the emotionally guarded lives of people in rural Ireland and the universal human difficulty of coping with loss.
88 minutes, Ireland, 2011, Colour
ANORA 15:30
BIRD 11:10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL – IFI FAMILY: SAUVAGES 11.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AGATHA AND THE LIMITLESS READINGS 14.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BEING MARIA 15.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JIM’S STORY 17.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MARCELLO MIO 19.50
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SCÉNARIOS + EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM ‘SCÉNARIO’ 12.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SOULEYMANE’S STORY 13.00
HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR 13:40, 18:20
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE 16:20, 18:30
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT 20:10
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR 20:40
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