| THE MEANING OF LIFFe : Ljubljana '05 (part four : Monday) |
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| Tuesday, 22 November 2005 | |
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official site ------------------------------ seen Monday 20th November ------------------------------ ADAM AND PAUL [6/10] : Ireland 2004 : Lenny ABRAHAMSON : 83 mins Said A+P being a bickering bestpal pair of Dublin junkies, perhaps in their mid-20s, who amble around the city and its outskirts, the one never leaving the other's sights: "Hello, Adam and Paul," is how the pair are greeted, as if two halves of the same organism. Adam (Mark O'Halloran, who also wrote the script) is the taller one, looks like a cross between Noel and Liam Gallagher (dangerous combination), the more active and aggressive of the pair. Paul (Tom Murphy) is the shorter, more pathetic, benevolent, self-effacingly apologetic (he spends half his time apologising, usually for something that isn't his fault). Not-so-dynamic duo get into various scrapes and adventures over the course of 24 hours (chronological unity!), some sharply funny, others dangerous, as they meet various folk including beggars, drinkers, passers-by small-time criminals. Not without humour, but on the whole very, very depressing - the ending is a proper downer, even more so than the superficially-similar Inside I'm Dancing. Gritty-grainy cinematography by James Mather captures transient moments of unlikely beauty; slightly intrusive bittersweet score by Stephen Rennicks. Script is the strong suit: Adam and Paul in Beckettian laconic-hobo tradition: their nemesis, who may or may not owe them money, and who may or may not even know who they are, is named 'Clank' - would fit just fine with Sam B's "Clov", "Hamm" and so (nohow) on. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ seen at Kino Dvor cinema, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Neil Young November 22nd 2005 seen on Friday : Willenbrock, Divided States of America, Mirage seen on Saturday : South by Southeast, Heading South seen on Sunday : Dallas Among Us, Kukumi, Buffalo Boy ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... POST-LJUBLJANA Reviews of films missed at LIFFe but seen on VHS or DVD subsequently as a direct result of their having been programmed at the event: Wed 23 Nov : Damjan Kozole's Labour Equals Freedom [5/10] Sat 3 Dec : Kyle Henry's Room [7/10] |
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