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Old 04-28-2004, 10:06 PM   #1
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Intermission
Watched this on DVD yesterday. It's an Irish film, supposedly the great white hope for the Irish film industry as an international break-out piece of work, but I'm not sure it is really doing that.

It's got a top notch cast, for a small budget Irish work. Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney and Cillian Murphy are the biggest names. Farrell and Murphy are great as a couple of Dublin knackers (if you know Dublin at all, you'll realise they are far too hot to be realistic knackers) and Meaney plays an insane cop who listens to "Celtic Myticism" music like Clannad. Colin Farrell plays a pretty vicious thug, and he has the walk and facial expressions of a pure Dublin townie tramp down perfectly.

As plot goes, it is one of those trendy films with a large number of central characters who don't all know each other, but whose lives all interwine in a series of comedic japes.

I thought it was hilarious, but the humour may be a bit too Irish-pariochial for international audiences to get. I think it was on general release in the UK last year, don't know about the US. I recommend it.

Also, for an Irish film it doesn't have the following stroylines:

(a) English or American stranger coming to small village full of strange, eccentric people but with one beautiful single mother who they fall in love with

(b) Poor people going to America or just being really poor

(c) IRA

(d) Priests and the Catholic church

Which is a good thing.



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From Paul Berne's autobiography:

Damien Gates tried to use me as a way back into football. That dirty English cunt knew his career was finished and he tried to drag me down with him, attempting to keep me up by reminising about the old times. I could see beneath his lies however, right to the point where I just wanted to smack that bastard.

'I knew I hadn't played well that day, I knew the team hadn't performed to his capabilities but by golly, his head shake made me want to destroy his face'

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