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Director
Ian Fitzgibbon
Credits
Producers: Philipp Kreuzer, Michael Garland, Astrid Kahmke. Writer: Anthony McCarten
Principal Cast
Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Andy Serkis, Aisling Loftus
Category
Feature
This warm, funny and surprisingly uplifting story of terminally ill teenager 15-year-old Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) has proved director Iain Fitzgibbon’s most acclaimed film to-date. Donald works through his feelings on his prognosis in sessions with therapist Dr.King (Andy Serkis) and in comic book-style drawings in which he is an invincible superhero fighting his mortal enemy. Despite his illness, Donald has the usual concerns of a teenage boy – sex, primarily. With the arrival of quirky new classmate Shelly (Aisling Loftus), this becomes secondary to the romance blossoming between them, and the problems attendant on first love. Refreshingly, Donald’s illness does not dominate the film; instead, it’s a starting point from which the film examines common teenage issues, given extra weight and urgency by the character’s condition. Notes by Kevin Coyne Awards: Special Jury Prize for Best Actress (Aisling Loftus), 10th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2012.
97 minutes, Ireland/Germany, 2011, Colour
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:55
BALTIMORE 18:30
IO CAPITANO 13:20
JEANNE DU BARRY 13:10, 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 13:30
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 15:40, 20:45
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN Q&A (PREVIEW) 18.30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 20:40
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16:10
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