Intermission

22 October 2018

Intermission 2003

• Director: John Crowley
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Colin Farrell, Kelly Macdonald, Cillian Murphy, Brían F O’Byrne, David Wilmot, Colm Meany, Dierdre O’Kane, Shirley Henderson
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Colin Farrell – In Bruges, Winter’s Tale, Fright Night, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Daredevil
• Kelly Macdonald – Harry Potter, The Decoy Bride, No Country for Old Men, Nanny McPhee, Tristram Shandy, The Girl in the Café, Finding Neverland, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Gosford Park, My Life So Far, Elizabeth, Trainspotting
• Cillian Murphy – Dunkirk, Transcendence, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, The Dark Knight, Sunshine, Batman Begins, Cold Mountain, Girl with the Pearl Earring, 28 Days Later
• Brían F O’Byrne – Million Dollar Baby
• David Wilmot – Good Vibrations, Parked
• Colm Meany – One Chance, Parked, The Van, The Last Mohican, The Commitments
• Dierdre O’Kane – Inside I’m Dancing
• Ger Ryan – David Copperfield, Moll Flanders, The Commitments
• Michael McElhatton – The Fall, Parked
• Shirley Henderson – Filth, Life During Wartime, Doctor Who, The Taming of the Shrew Re-Told, Harry Potter, Tristram Shandy, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, 24 Hour Party People, Topsy-Turvy, Hamish Macbeth, Trainspotting, Rob Roy
• Rory Keenan – Ella Enchanted
• Why? The cast
• Seen: 21 October 2018      

       A charming and violent thief (O’Farrell). A loser supermarket employee (Murphy) who won’t accept that his ex-girlfriend (Macdonald) has new boyfriend who’s married and has deserted his wife. A tough guy cop (Meany) who uses less than orthodox procedure. A TV reporter (Keenan) who wants to report on something grittier than rabbit races. A younger sister (Henderson) who has a moustache and hates dresses and everything and everybody (with good reason).

       These stories and others weave in and out through the whole movie, spoken in such a thick Irish dialect that we need to read the Swedish subtitles. But how they weave together. Twists and violent turns that rip some lives apart, bring others together.

       The story is unexpected but not the quality. These actors always deliver. And not without some good twisted humour.

4 * of 5