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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
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:00, 15:50
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 19.00
KIDNAPPED 16:00, 20:20
PERFECT DAYS 13:15
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:30, 18:30, 20:50
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 18:10
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.00
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