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Director
Peter Lennon
Credits
Producer: Victor Herbert. Writer: Peter Lennon. Cinematography: Raoul Coutard.
Category
DocumentaryClassic1916 Centenary
Rocky Road to Dublin is a 1968 documentary film by Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and French cinematographer Raoul Coutard (long-time collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard), examining the contemporary state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, “what do you do with your revolution once you’ve got it?” It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and clerical traditionalism at the time of its making. Astonishingly, this film, selected by the Cannes Festival to represent Ireland in 1968 and immediately shown across Europe and North America, was shunned in Ireland. Apart from one brief run in 1968 at the Dublin International Film Theatre it was never accepted for commercial or television release in Ireland until the 2000s. This is the film that, in the late ‘60s, shattered Ireland’s complacent view of itself as a liberated country. The film is presented with the documentary Making of Rocky Road to Dublin. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn.
70 minutes, Ireland, 1968, B&W
BÁITE 15.30, 18.20 (Cinema Club)
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU 13.00
JEAN-LUC GODARD: FIRST NAME: CARMEN (PRÉNOM CARMEN) 18.30
SIRĀT 12.55
SOUND OF FALLING 15.20 (OC), 20.10
THE BRIDE! 17.30, 20.35
THE SECRET AGENT 20.20
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 15.30 (70MM)
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