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Joe Lawlor

“Our background is in theatre. I think some of the filmmakers that we like – Bresson, Maurice Pialat, Renoir, Max Ophuls – there is a certain theatricality about their worlds. I was watching Hitchcock’s Vertigo the other day and thinking what a strange thriller it is. The pacing of it; the style, the mood, the tone – it’s so slow. Wonderful. You can’t imagine that level of abstraction now in a film. It’s quite theatrical and we like that very much. Maybe it’s a performance thing? I think it’s also a sense of time.”

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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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