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Director
Padraig Trehy
Category
FeatureLiterature
A new exploration of the actual and much-fabled friendship between Joyce and Irish tenor, John McCormack. McCormack inspires the character of Shaun the Post in Joyce’s famously ‘unreadable’ final novel Finnegans Wake, in which Joyce portrayed himself as Shaun’s lowly twin brother, Shem. Joyce’s twin obsessions, singing and literary experimentation, flow through the film as the friends’ encounters are reimagined in a variety of early cinematic styles and real and imaginary audio recordings. (Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn.)
80 minutes, Ireland, 2015
ALAN GILSENAN: THE ASYLUM 18.30
AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY) 18.10
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MISSIONS IMPOSSIBLE (PROGRAMME 1) 13.00
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER 13.00 (OC), 20.30
LA GRAZIA 15.20
SIRĀT 16.00
SPILT MILK 13.50
STAND BY ME (40th ANNIVERSARY) 18.30
THE DRAMA 13.10, 20.45
THE STRANGER 15.40, 20.10
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