Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 16/05/2012

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MAY 2012: PROGRAMME 1

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

    This month we present two sponsored films designed to entice British visitors to Ireland.

     

    PROGRAMME 1: COME ABOARD

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • CAFÉ DE FLORE

    Emotive material, full-on performances and jaw-dropping cinematic bravura lift this latest from French-Canadian maverick Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y.) to lofty heights of accomplishment. Is the love of our lives a once-only experience? That’s the question seemingly linking two disparate story threads.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.40|16.50|21.00

  • CHARLIE CASANOVA

    Terry McMahon’s debut feature is an excoriating portrait of an entitled sociopath who, after running over a working-class girl, decides to remove himself from the constraints imposed by society and leave all his major choices to a deck of cards,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17.00|21.00

  • CINEMA PARADISO

    Filmmaker Salvatore (Toto) returns to his home village for the funeral of a dear friend, local projectionist Alfredo who taught him the magic of cinema as a child. Growing up fatherless, Toto looked to the older man for advice, becoming... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

  • DAMSELS IN DISTRESS

    American cinema’s most urbane talent, writer-director Whit Stillman returns from a 13-year hiatus with this delightful fable of campus lives and loves. As new arrival Lily (Analeigh Tipton, from TV reality show America’s Next Top Model!) faces the challenge of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.00|19.00

  • GOODBYE FIRST LOVE

    Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve confirms the promise of Father of My Children with this elegantly turned, thoroughly perceptive rites-of-passage story. When we first meet Camille (Lola Créton) she’s 15, waiting for her teenage lover Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), and convinced she’ll die... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.40

  • MONSIEUR LAZHAR

    The film which swept Canada’s end-of-year Genie Awards is an affecting chronicle of loss and acceptance. Children and staff at a Montreal primary school are numbed by the suicide of a much-loved teacher, and her unlikely replacement is a kindly... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30|20.50

  • STOPPED ON TRACK

    We’re pleased to close this short season of films with the latest work by Andreas Dresen, who’s one of Germany’s most respected directors and the recipient of countless awards. A prize-winner at Cannes, Stopped on Track was also voted the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.50

  • THE MONK

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    A classic of Gothic literature, Matthew Gregory Lewis’ 1796 shocker The Monk was the first to depict a villainous priest as the central character. Although Luis Buñuel was stymied in his efforts to film it, he would... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.00


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