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Aidan Gillen

“I’m always attracted to bold, risk-taking scripts. Some people said that Queer as Folk was sensationalist and had too much sex. The real mayor of Baltimore complained that The Wire was too bleak. In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.”

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    The Future Tense

    THE FUTURE TENSE

    JOE LAWLOR, CHRISTINE MOLLOY Ireland, 2022

    Bumpy journeys across the Irish Sea don’t come more timely than this. Playing with turbulent, limbo-like airspace between London and Dublin, directorial duo Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor make profound use of poetic license to investigate what it means, in a fast-changing present, to belong.

    Further Beyond

    FURTHER BEYOND

    CHRISTINE MOLLOY, JOE LAWLOR Ireland, 2016

    A riveting, completely original anti-biopic from one of our favorite filmmaker duos, whose revisionist crime film, Helen is an ingenious gem. Molloy & Lawlor’s first foray into documentary explores identity and space while playfully dissecting the very nature of cinematic language. And it’s funny!

    Rose Plays Julie

    ROSE PLAYS JULIE

    JOE LAWLOR, CHRISTINE MOLLOY Ireland, 2019

    Rose Plays Julie is an icy revenge thriller from the brilliant Irish filmmaking duo Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor (Helen). With a tightly-coiled lead performance from Ann Skelly, this slippery exploration of doubling and identity offers a masterclass in contained suspense.

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