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Cathal Black
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DocumentaryLiterature
Thomas Lynch is a Detroit-based mortician who has run the family business for over 30 years and arranged perhaps 6,000 funerals. When not an American undertaker, he is an Irishman who lives in Moveen, Co. Clare (from where his grandparents emigrated) and a poet and essayist of immense repute. Drawing on his work, this film is an engaging and inspiring journey into his unusual world. The film is neither morose nor melancholic, but is rich in Lynch’s passion and humour: for him, it is only through dealing with death that we can truly get on with the business of living. With Lynch’s writing always at its core, Black has crafted a film that is sensitive, beautiful and, in its own right, a finely crafted piece of poetry. (Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn)
70 minutes, Ireland, 2007, Colour
AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: CLERKS 18.20
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (PROGRAMME 1) 12.50 12.50
CROSSING 13.00, 18.10
HEART OF AN OAK 13.10
LA CHIMERA 15.45
SHAYDA 15.30, 20.30
SLEEP 13.40
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 20.50
THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW 18.30
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 20.40
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