Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 18/04/2012

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME APRIL 2012: PROGRAMME 2

    Join us for free screenings from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.

    IF YOU’RE NOT IN YOU CAN’T WIN

    We present two advertising films masquerading as travelogues which were made to promote sales of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • CARL DREYER TALK

    Long recognised as one of cinema’s great directors, and the subject of a selective retrospective in this programme, Carl Dreyer’s high reputation is well deserved but some of his work is rarely seen and has led to a distorted view... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30

  • DAY OF WRATH

    Stylistically, this deeply moving tale of illicit passion and the persecution of witches in 17th century Denmark may be Dreyer’s most conventional sound film; nevertheless, for the stark beauty of its imagery, its meticulously measured rhythms and its lead performance,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.50

  • DELICACY

    At first sight, Delicacy seems to be a standard French romantic comedy. Nathalie (Audrey Tautou) and François (Pio Marmaï) are a beautiful couple blissfully in love in a picture-perfect Paris and with a fairy-tale life ahead of them. However, when... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.10|16.30|20.50

  • HEADHUNTERS

    This adaptation of Norwegian Jo Nesbø’s million-selling novel delivers Nordic Noir with a vengeance. A corporate recruitment specialist named Roger Brown is slightly ginger, not that tall, and living a luxury lifestyle he can’t afford – so he moonlights as... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30|18.50

  • LA GRANDE ILLUSION

    Newly restored for its 75th anniversary, Jean Renoir’s WWI drama is both the grand-daddy of all prison escape movies and a profoundly affecting portrait of just how decent people can be to each other . . .in the right circumstances.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.20

  • LE HAVRE

    A change of scenery from Helsinki to the French coast has helped Aki Kaurismäki deliver an urban fairy-tale that’s one of his most cherishable films to date. The characteristically retro art direction and Kaurismäki’s old-school craftsmanship recall Hollywood’s golden age,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.40|21.00

  • MOZART’S SISTER

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    This fascinating historical drama takes us on the road with the Mozart family in the 1760s, as ambitious father Léopold (Marc Barbé) hauls his child prodigy Wolfie (master David Moreau) round the courts of Europe, performing in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.40

  • ORDET

    Re-released to coincide with a season of the director’s films, for many this adaptation of Kaj Munk’s play about tensions within a Jutland farming family is the very greatest of all Carl Dreyer’s masterpieces.

    Old Morten Borgen fears God has... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.50

  • The Help

    Back by popular demand, this Golden Globe-winning drama is based on the book club favourite and best-selling debut novel by Kathryn Stockett. Set in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s, it chronicles the relationship between three diff erent and extraordinary women who build an... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.30


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