“The scope of the action feels like Slattery is manipulating clockwork miniatures in a grey diorama of Dublin, winding up a situation and letting it go off.”
“There’s an impulsiveness to director David Freyne’s filmmaking that throws emotion and action at the audience with a beating-heart intensity,” writes our reviewer.
“The film that these people are auditioning for is not the film that we are watching. What we are seeing is closer to O’Brien’s backstage ‘making of’ feature,” writes Luke Maxwell.
Endless Sunshine on a Cloudy Day “cleverly uses the grammar of internet vlogs to move us through the narrative … it is a poignant picture but it’s not a morbid one”, writes our reviewer.
While it’s “not a new story”, Calm With Horses has “a number of strong performances that make it a worthwhile variation on this tried-and-true setup”, writes our reviewer.
“Tom Sullivan’s Irish-language Famine drama is a briny story of purgatorial survival,” writes our reviewer, of this film premiering this week as part of the Dublin International Film Festival.
In “The New Music”, a pianist’s life changes when he is diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s and moves into a shared Dublin house with three punk rockers.
At times this feels like an all-too-straightforward exploration of a cult musician’s work – but if the aim is to spark interest in him, it certainly succeeds.
