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Four films open at the Irish Film Institute on April 5th 2019: Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers, Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy As Lazzaro, heart-stopping documentary Last Breath, and Stanley Kubrick’s classic A Clockwork Orange.
Read on for a selection of reviews or pop in to make up your own mind.
THE SISTERS BROTHERS
“Reilly’s tender performance as a man trying to move with the times is beautiful, while Phoenix delivers laughs and pity as the loose cannon”
4/5 – RTÉ
“There’s some terrific back and forth between Reilly and Phoenix, nonetheless, and Benoît Debie’s cinematography is a wonder”
3/5 – Irish Times
“The English-language debut from the French director is an all-American delight, starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly perfect as sad, squabbling siblings”
4/5 – Guardian
“This alcohol-soaked Frontier road trip constantly reinvents itself at every turn in fun, witty and ultimately touching ways”
3/4 – Roger Ebert
HAPPY AS LAZZARO
“Happy as Lazzaro, like its elusive protagonist, is dreamy, lightly comic and unfailingly nice”
“Alice Rohrwacher’s enigmatic drama is an unsettling and moving satire about the unquestioning toil of peasants’ lives”
5/5 – Guardian
“Alice Rohrwacher’s follow-up to 2014’s ‘The Wonders’ could be a biting social commentary, a religious parable or a beguiling, supernatural tale. Perhaps it is all three”
5/5 – Independent
“Easily among this year’s finest films and laced with an unapologetic social message”
4/4 – Roger Ebert
LAST BREATH
“Last Breath is a dramatic, sometimes moving film which tracks the lives of deep sea divers working on the seabed in the North Sea”
“Dive disaster doc stretched to its limits”
“Cinema’s latest man-v-nature survival story is a rattling about a diver in trouble that is careful not to apportion blame”
3/5 – Guardian
“Last Breath milks the extraordinary drama of its real-life survival tale, but it can sometimes feel like the theatrics – cliffhangers, surging orchestration – are overdoing it”
3/5 – Irish Independent
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
“This outlandish tale of dystopian delinquency remains deeply thought-provoking – but is not without troublesome elements”
“A much-maligned and misunderstood classic, this is one of Kubrick’s finest movies”
5/5 – Empire
“a most unusual–and disorienting–movie experience”
New York Times
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT 11:00, 20:20
ANORA 17:30
CONCLAVE 15:30, 18:00
HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR 11:10, 15:40
IFI KINOPOLIS: SEXMISSION 15.10
IFI KINOPOLIS: SIMONA KOSSAK + Q&A 17.45
IFI KINOPOLIS: THE DOG 13.00
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL 13:20, 20:30
RUMOURS 13:10, 20:20
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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