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Director
Goran Paskaljevic
Credits
Producers: Marco Chimenz, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Liam O'Neill, Cliver Parsons, Giovanni Stabilini, Riccardo Tozzi. Writers: Christine Gentet, Goran Paskeljevic, Stephen Walsh, Zhengguang Yang
Principal Cast
Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy, Adrian Dunbar, Kerry Condon
Category
Feature
Very much an international production, How Harry Became a Tree has a Serbian director use an Irish cast to tell a Chinese folk tale that comically touches on the legacy of both Irish and Balkan civil wars. Central to the story is the paranoid, combustive Harry (Colm Meaney), who bullies his submissive son Gus (Cillian Murphy) and feuds with neighbour George (Adrian Dunbar). Uninterested in his father’s conflicts, Gus falls for and marries Eileen (Kerry Condon), one of George’s employees; Gus’s failure to make this marriage work just feeds his father’s inferiority complex as he watches George step in and sweep Eileen off her feet. The story of feuding families in 1920s Ireland revels in the sustained dark comedy which infuses the violent, often humorous conflict between Harry and George.
99 minutes, France/UK/Italy/Ireland, 2001, Colour
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MCGAHERN: SHORT STORIES (DOUBLE BILL) 13:10
EAT / SLEEP / CHEER / REPEAT 13.30, 18.00
HOARD 15.10, 20.10
LA CHIMERA 13:15, 20:30
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 18:30
ROME, OPEN CITY 11:00
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11:00, 16:00, 20:45
TIGER STRIPES 11:00, 18:20
WORLD CINEMA PROJECT: THE STRANGER AND THE FOG 15.30
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