JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY<br />
IT’S ALL SO QUIET<br />
BOVEN IS HET STIL<br />
Bachelor dairy farmer, Henk (Jeroen Willems) divides<br />
his time between working with his cows and caring<br />
for his bedridden father, whom he treats with far less<br />
affection than the sheep he keeps as pets. When we<br />
first meet him, he’s roughly relocating his dad from<br />
a room downstairs to a bedroom at the top of the<br />
house, with a view to redecorating and cleaning away<br />
the past. But slowly we come to realise that Henk<br />
is a man utterly trapped in isolation by a past that<br />
constantly hovers on the tip of his tongue, the words<br />
bitten back and silently swallowed.<br />
‘a poignant reflection on solitude, homosexual repression<br />
and aging’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 3 / 6pm / 93 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Nanouk Leopold 2013 Netherlands<br />
Cast: Jeroen Willems, Henri Garcin, Wim Opbrouck<br />
With meticulous attention to detail, Dutch director,<br />
Nanouk Leopold takes her time to tell Henk’s story,<br />
presenting a life and a cinematic landscape that<br />
are as bleak as they are lyrical. Her ability to keep<br />
the viewer riveted as she slowly drip-feeds nuggets<br />
of information to reveal the crux of Henk’s stunted<br />
sexuality, shows an artist in complete control of her<br />
material. Men come and go, offering love to the<br />
inaccessible farmer, but it is only the dying old man<br />
upstairs who can ultimately set him free.<br />
Brian Finnegan<br />
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN<br />
An epic and striking adaptation of Nigerian writer<br />
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Orange Prize-winning<br />
novel, the beautifully staged Half Of A Yellow Sun is<br />
an often gripping tale that follows two women during<br />
the dramas of Nigeria’s independence.<br />
‘Newton [is] at the top of her game’<br />
Variety<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 5 / 6.30pm / 106 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Biyi Bandele 2013 Nigeria/UK<br />
Cast: Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose<br />
Driven by powerful and moving performances<br />
from Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave), Thandie<br />
Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness) and Anika Noni<br />
Rose (Dreamgirls), the film, directed and adapted<br />
by Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele, follows sisters<br />
Olanna (Newton) and Kainene (Rose), daughters of<br />
a well-to-do businessman who follow very different<br />
paths. Olanna falls in love with Odenigbo (Ejiofor), a<br />
revolutionary, while Kainene enters into a romance<br />
with a white British writer (Joseph Mawle). As civil<br />
war spreads, the sisters flee to Nigeria’s southeastern<br />
region where the short-lived Republic of Biafra<br />
is formed.<br />
Thandie Newton has the showier role as the<br />
passionate and elegant Olanna, and her vibrancy<br />
adds much to the part, while Anika Noni Rose is<br />
wonderfully sarcastic and stylish as Kainene,<br />
a driven woman who has to deal with her own<br />
bout of heartache.<br />
Mark Adams<br />
Screen International<br />
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