Page 36 - Cork Film Festival 2019 Brochure

SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER
GREED
Michael Winterbottom
20:45 | GATE
Smarting from a calamitous appearance before a government committee, retail billionaire Sir Richard ‘Greedy’ McCreadie (Steve Coogan) turns his attention
to planning lavish celebrations for his 60th birthday on the Greek island of Mykonos. Amidst gaudy super-rich trappings and tantrums, a parade of characters including damaged family members, disaffected employees and
UK 104 mins 2019
Second Chance Mon 11 Nov | 13:00 | Gate NARRATIVE
Syrian refugees exposes the life of a man both celebrated as ‘the King of the High Street’ and deplored as ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’. Bumbling writer Nick (David Mitchell) has been hired as McCreadie’s biographer and tries to make sense of it all. Michael Winterbottom’s provocative, intelligent satire is biting and brilliant. MH Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival, 2019
THE NIGHTINGALE
Jennifer Kent
20:45 | EVERYMAN
Jennifer Kent follows up her terrifying debut The Babadook (2014) with a dark tale of revenge in colonial Australia. It follows Clare, a young Irish convict, as she tracks a British officer through the Tasmanian wilderness, intent on bloody and brutal retribution for the crimes that he and his men committed against her family. With astonishing, powerful
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Australia 136 mins 2018
Second Chance Mon 11 Nov | 15:30 | Gate NARRATIVE
performances from Ireland’s Aisling Franciosi as Clare, and newcomer Baykali Ganambarr as Aboriginal tracker Billy, The Nightingale is a tense, brooding thriller that will have you clutching at the arms of your seat. SE
Winner, Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival, 2018
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