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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
AN IRISH GOODBYE + Q&A 15.10
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: ST. PATRICK’S MISCELLANY 13.10
CLOSE 16.35
GOD’S CREATURES 15.15, 18.45, 20.50
TÁR 20.10
THE BEASTS 17.30, 20.20
THE FIVE DEVILS 13.00, 17.50
WOMEN TALKING 13.15
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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