A lot can change in five to ten years and even more can unfortunately remain the same. When we first meet the Joyce family little Frances’ age has yet to hit double digits, her younger brother Patrick still clinging to their mom’s side. Their band of traveling Irish sing their folk songs and drink their stout, enjoying the freedom they live to protect — the same freedom outsiders love to destroy by lobbing racist and classist bigotry onto them as though they were savages. Michael Joyce (Dara Devaney) puts Frances on his shoulders to give the ol’ Muhammad Ali one-two while declaring her the greatest ever when a local Sergeant (Aidan O’Hare) arrives to cause trouble. The dust settles to show Michael leaving in chains, his wife tragically dead.
Writer/director Carmel Winters then fast-forwards the aforementioned span of time to show Frances (Hazel Doupe) has only grown stronger...
Writer/director Carmel Winters then fast-forwards the aforementioned span of time to show Frances (Hazel Doupe) has only grown stronger...
- 9/15/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
For Demian Bichir, the deserved Oscar nomination he received for his moving turn in "A Better Life," was validation for a career that has been building steadily. This year the actor is beginning to see the payoff with more substantial roles in bigger films like Oliver Stone's "Savages" (where he was one of the highlights) and Robert Rodriguez's "Machete Kills" which is now shooting. But this week a film arrives that is likely to serve as a reminder of how he came to the attention of Hollywood in the first place. Bichir stars in "The Runway," the sophomore feature film from writer/director Ian Power. Inspired by true events, the comedy tells the story of Ernesto (Bichir), a Colombian pilot whose plane has crashed in a small Irish village. Not able to speak a word of English, he befriends a precocious 9-year-old boy named Paco (Jamie Kierans), the...
- 7/18/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Irish cinema is completely saturated with woeful war stories about the loss of love, innocence, family and country. Too many times has the blood soaked story of the Easter Rising been told on our screens. With each new widely released Irish production comes more dreary tales of days gone by. There are many common themes and styles that reverberate through the annals of Irish film, but have we ever had a really great Irish comedy? Better yet, has there ever been a heartwarming, uplifting tale of love, friendship and adventure? Well, now there is. The Runway tells the 'kind of' true story of Paco (Jamie Kierans), a young boy who encounters a crashed pilot one faithful night in Mallow in 1983. The mysterious pilot, Ernesto (Demian Bichir), is taken in by Paco and his mother where they awkwardly try to communicate as to where he's come from. When it all becomes clear,...
- 5/31/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ferg)
- www.themoviebit.com
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