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Three new films are out this week: On Chesil Beach starring Saoirse Ronan, The Breadwinner from Irish company Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea) and Zama, the new film from Lucrecia Martel after a nine year wait.
Check out some reviews below and pop into the IFI to make up your own mind!
ON CHESIL BEACH “For audiences, the sobs-to-scenes ratio could be exactly the same on Ian McEwan’s Dorset coast as it was in Colm Tóibín’s New York” 4/5 – RTE
“A completely heartbreaking story brought to exquisite life via immaculate writing, directing and acting” Los Angeles Times
“It’s a lyrical and rapturous film – a repressed passion play, funny, delicate and heartbreaking” Variety
“Ronan is exquisite” Irish Independent
THE BREADWINNER “The animation is gorgeous in this Oscar-nominated feature about a young woman supporting her family under the Taliban in Kabul, but the real magic is in the storytelling” 4/5 – Irish Times
“Indeed, The Breadwinner has all of the right ingredients to be examined in depth by schools in Ireland, and hopefully, one day, by every child around the world” 5/5 – RTE
“Her subsequent adventures will expose the cruelty and nonsensical stupidity of the Taliban’s ham-fisted theocracy, its ugliness a stark contrast to this heartfelt, wonderfully animated film” 4/5 – Irish Independent
“This is a day-to-day survival story that stirs the heart and fires the imagination” 5/5 – Time Out
“Jewel-bright and heart-wrenching” Hollywood Reporter
ZAMA “The strangeness and Beckettian frustrations of the halting drama make for a unique viewing experience” 4/5 – Irish Times
“A mordantly funny and relentlessly modernist critique of colonialism” 4/4 – Rogerebert.com
“A patient, delicately strange film chronicling an increasingly impatient man and a destiny beyond his control” Chicago Tribune
“Poetic is a word that gets thrown around willy-nilly, but it fits perfectly here. So does woozy. It feels less like a film than a high fever” 4/4 – Rolling Stone
ABOUT DRY GRASSES 15:00, 19:10
AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: THE DOOM GENERATION 17.00
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (DOUBLE BILL) 13.40
CROSSING 11:40, 20:40
I SAW THE TV GLOW 15.40, 18.00
LA CHIMERA 14:10
NOTES FROM SHEEPLAND 14:00, 18:50
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11:10
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 20:15
THE SATURDAY SERIAL: INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY 11.00
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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