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THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER
Ireland 2009
108 mins + Q&A
THE YELLOW BITTERN
Alan Gilsenan
18:00 | GATE DOCUMENTARY
To mark the tenth anniversary of its original release, Cork Film Festival presents a special screening of The Yellow Bittern, Alan Gilsenan’s remarkable documentary biopic of Liam Clancy. Recounting his life
in his own words, Clancy’s personal reflections are insightful and inspirational, constructing a revealing portrait of great candour and honesty. Like his musical work, the film is lyrical and poetic and a fitting tribute to this great man at the end of his life. RG
There will be a post-screening in-conversation with director Alan Gilsenan, the Arts Council/UCC Film Artist in Residence for 2019/20. See p. 107 for details.
THE WHISTLERS
(LA GOMERA)
Corneliu Porumboiu
18:00 | EVERYMAN
NARRATIVE
Romania, France, Germany 2019
Photo: Vlad Cioplea
97 mins Subtitled
Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) is a corrupt Bucharest policeman in hock to local gangsters. In over his head and subject to their whims, he is bought
to La Gomera in the Canary Islands to be taught the local (and apparently genuine) tradition of silbo whistling, a whistled version of Spanish, so he can communicate with the bad guys without his police bosses catching on. Here begins a spiralling tale involving a parade of untrustworthy characters, an alluring femme fatale, sporadic violence and mattresses full of money. Referencing Hitchcock, Welles and others with cineaste glee, Corneliu Porumboiu has crafted a smart neo-noir packed with thrills and delights. MH
Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival, 2019
FLOATING STRUCTURES
Adrian Duncan, Feargal Ward
18:15 | TRISKEL
DOCUMENTARY
Ireland 2019
65 mins + 22 mins
Beginning with the world’s first metal cantilever bridge, which was located in Bavaria, Floating Structures charts a course to Paris where
it encounters the visionary engineering work of Ireland’s Peter Rice. Co-directed by visual artist and writer Adrian Duncan and Feargal Ward (The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid), Floating Structures is a flâneur-like quest to consider the gravity-defying mysteries of structural engineering. DOM
Accompanied by a screening of Memory Room (22 mins). There will
be a post-screening panel discussion about the film’s themes and filmmaker’s practice hosted by Dr Dara Waldron, author of New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory.
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