JDIFF 2010 Festival Club @ The IFI

Fri 19 Feb / Screen 1 / 6.40pm

Director: Ken Wardrop 2009 / Ireland / 80 minutes

Director Ken Wardrop will be in attendance at this screening.

The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival would like you invite you along to our festival club at the IFI. Come and meet the staff and guests of the festival as well as other patrons, discuss the programme, make recommendations and help us enhance the more social aspects of Ireland’s biggest film event.

The IFI offers a great selection of food and beverages in its newly renovated cafe bar. The enthusiastic staff are only to happy to cater to any pre-screening meal or post-screening drink or snack. Also, keep an eye on our website for more information on festival club events including the annual Volunteer Film Quiz.

For the duration of the Festival JDIFF ticket holders will receive €1 discount on all food orders over €5. One concession per ticket holder. Concession offered in addition to the IFI Members 10% discount.

Irish Film Institute

6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

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Michael Hayden, London Film Festival Programme

Gaspar Noé’s ‘psychedelic melodrama’ is a provocative yet contemplative exploration of life, death and sexuality, an avant-garde journey into the mind of low-level drug dealer Oscar (Brown). Oscar and his sister Linda (de la Huerta) lived apart for years in foster homes, but finally reconnect in Tokyo. Brother and sister are torn apart again, however, when Oscar is shot and left to die on the grimy floor of a nightclub bathroom. And here the story truly begins…. To enhance the cyclical nature of the narrative, Noé utilizes rhythmic shooting techniques, stroboscopic visuals, complex soundscapes and ambitious computer effects, creating a truly hypnotic atmosphere, as explicit sex and intense violence are intertwined with abstract montages of colour and light. Experimenting with new technology that seamlessly enhances his visual style, Gasper Noé delivers another boundary-pushing experience that is sure to be talked about for years to come.

Colin Geddes, Toronto Film Festival Programme

Enter the Void

Fri 19 Feb / Screen 1 / 8.40pm

Director: Tom Harper

2009 / UK / 96 minutes

Principal Cast: Steven Mackintosh, Holly Grainger, Susan Lynch, Thomas Turgoose

Fri 19 Feb / Light House / 8.00pm

Director: Gasper Noé

2009 / France / 150 minutes

Principal Cast: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta

Having grown up together on a caravan park on the Norfolk coast where their respective parents work, teenagers David (Turgoose) and Emily (Grainger) are deeply reliant on each other for distractions and mischief. It’s a shock to them both when it’s decided that Emily is to be sent away to live with her father, and there’s even greater alarm throughout the park community when Emily disappears. David struggles to cope as the situation grows ever more complex. Tom Harper’s debut feature is an expertly constructed drama with deftly handled shifts in tone, depicting the awkwardness and fears of being a teenager, without denying the delights of being young during a hazy British summer. Thomas Turgoose continues to build on the reputation he’s gained appearing in Shane Meadows’ This Is England and Somerstown, while Holly Grainger delivers an equally impressive performance as Emily.