Tag: Irish Cinema

Bring Them Down | Review

Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party....

Small Things like These | Review

All the Small Things: Mielants Mines the Evils of Complicity “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

Aisha | Review

No Safe Havens: Letitia Wright’s Breathtaking Refugee Turn Frank Berry’s Aisha is the superbly moving record of a Nigerian refugee’s quiet fight for dignity in...

The Banshees of Inisherin | Review

When Demon Voices Wake Us: McDonagh Charts a Bad Bromance in Dark, Delightful Drama The abrupt end to a lifelong relationship provides the basis for...

Sea Fever | Review

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Hardiman Finds Humanity in the Horror We’ve seen countless films about bands of isolated humans in...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.