A Film With Me In It
What:
A Film With Me In It
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Exclusive to Cinema Nova from April 23
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Not far into this Irish black comedy, I began actively wishing bad stuff upon its protagonist. Luckily, there's plenty of that. Mark (Mark Doherty) is a failed actor, amateur clarinettist and general atomic wimp. He lacks even the drunk-and-disorderly charm of his equally hopeless best friend Pierce (Dylan Moran), a wannabe screenwriter.
Mark and his exasperated girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman) live in a decrepit Dublin flat with Mark's disabled brother David (Doherty's real-life brother, comedian David O'Doherty). Until Mark pays the last three months' rent, snarky landlord Jack (Keith Allen) refuses to make any repairs.
This ill-maintained house ends up killing three people (and a dog) in circumstances so farcical that Mark and Pierce realise nobody will believe the deaths were accidental. Instead, they try to workshop the day's events as if they were part of Pierce's latest script. As Pierce explains, "It's the new truth."
Doherty's script takes ages to deliver on its premise but, once it does, it's quite funny in a shaggy, Shallow Grave way. The audience in my screening hooted with laughter at Dylan Moran's every utterance; it's just his familiar, bumbling-drunk shtick, but it's still the highlight.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Leave brain at home
Keywords: Dylan Moran, Carlton, Cinema Nova, Mark Doherty
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