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Director
Neil Jordan
Credits
Producer: Barry Blackmore. Writer: Neil Jordan
Principal Cast
Stephen Rea, Ray McAnally, Donal McCann, Veronica Quilligan, Honor Heffernan
Category
Feature
In his first appearance as a writer-director Neil Jordan laid down a marker as to what was to come in his career, casting signature actor Stephen Rea as Danny, a showband saxophonist shocked by the senseless terrorist shooting of an innocent waif outside a border country dance hall. As he would throughout his subsequent career however, Jordan challenges the audience’s easy moral assumptions when Danny, transformed into an angel of vengeance, leaves his own bloody trail, lost in a miasma of contradictions once he picks up a gun himself. Confrontational, spare, and poetic, Jordan’s courageous foray into the dark psychic chasm at the heart of the Troubles remains an indelible landmark in Irish film.
Notes by Trevor Johnston.
92 minutes, Ireland/UK, 1982, Colour
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY 12:00, 17:50
KIDNAPPED 19:00
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 14:20, 16:40
PERFECT DAYS 12:45
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 12.20, 14.40, 17.00, 19.20
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 20.10
WORLD CINEMA PROJECT: THE HOUSEMAID 15.30
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