Irish
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Life’s A Breeze
Despite the title, life hardly seems like a breeze for three generations of this Irish family who live hand to mouth in a Dublin suburb. The matriarch Nan is a bit of a hoarder so the rest of the family devise a plan to get her out of her House one day so that they can…
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Calvary
In the opening scenes of John Michael McDonagh’s rather violent drama (that I perversely still insist of calling a black comedy despite its tragic ending), we see a Priest taking confession from an unseen man. “I first tasted semen when I was 7 years old’ are the first words out of his mouth and then…
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Jimmy’s Hall
Jimmy Gralton returned to his native Ireland in 1932 when a new Government led by Eammon de Valera took office and at last promised peace after ‘the troubles’. Gralton’s eldest brother had recently died and his elderly mother was left trying to scrape a living off the poor infertile land on the Farm that the…
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Fairytale of Kathmandu
Director Neass Ni Chianain first encountered legendary Irish Poet Cathal O Searcaigh as a student in awe of him. Years later, the two are now friends and the poet invites her to accompany him on his annual three month visit to Nepal, which he considers his spiritual home. O Searcaigh, a middle aged openly gay man,…
