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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
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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