JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
STAY<br />
Archaeologist Dermot (Aidan Quinn) lives on Ireland’s<br />
west coast trying to bury his past. His young lover<br />
Abby (Taylor Schilling) is beginning to reconsider<br />
her future with him ‘at the end of the world’. When<br />
she finds he has no interest in having children, she<br />
returns to her native Montreal to reflect on her<br />
situation. Meanwhile, the local community trundles its<br />
way through death and birth, economic collapse and<br />
survival – its intimacy at times a comfort, at others an<br />
intrusion.<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8pm / 99 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld 2013 Canada/Ireland<br />
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Taylor Schilling, Barry Keoghan<br />
While Dermot’s professional and human engagement<br />
is renewed by a bogland find, Abby’s confusion grows<br />
as she excavates her own history. The film, based on<br />
Aislinn Hunter’s acclaimed debut novel Stay, shuttles<br />
between the Galway locale and cosmopolitan<br />
Montreal. The west of Ireland’s rugged, sparse<br />
landscape and rough roads stress the struggle to be<br />
close despite global connectivity and the story poses<br />
questions about language, identity, family, distance<br />
and home. The cast also includes Barry Keoghan and<br />
Brian Gleeson (both of Love/Hate), Nika McGuigan,<br />
Michael Ironside, Gina Moxley and Ann Marie Horan.<br />
Stephanie McBride<br />
DCU<br />
YOZGAT BLUES<br />
The story of a city slicker forced to relocate to the<br />
provinces has been retold in many different countries.<br />
Yozgat Blues discovers a tasty variation on this wellworn<br />
theme. Yuvaz (Ercan Kesal – Once Upon a Time<br />
in Anatolia, JDIFF 2012) is a music teacher in Istanbul<br />
who also performs occasionally as a musician. When<br />
a performing gig is offered to him in the middle of<br />
the country, he decides to seize the opportunity, even<br />
though he is reluctant to trade the big city for life in a<br />
more remote outpost.<br />
‘succeeds in capturing a bittersweet mood that<br />
will haunt viewers’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 3 / 8.30pm / 92 minutes<br />
Director: Mahmut Fazil Coşkun 2013 Turkey/Germany<br />
Writers: Tarik Tufan, Mahmut Fazil Coşkun<br />
Cast: Ercan Kesal, Ayça Damgaci, Tansu Biçer<br />
Winner, FIPRESCI Award, Warsaw Film Festival<br />
Although Yuvaz is the protagonist, the film turns out<br />
to be a group portrait of half a dozen people whose<br />
lives intersect with his. Nese (Ayça Damgaci), his<br />
singing partner, develops an attachment to Sabri<br />
(Tansu Biçer), the barber who helps the balding<br />
Yuvaz with the toupee he wears while performing.<br />
The characters and relationships are incisively drawn,<br />
and the film’s deadpan sense of humour tickles. Kesal<br />
gives a sympathetic performance as Yuvaz, and Biçer<br />
is equally engaging as the sheltered barber. Yozgat<br />
Blues succeeds in capturing a bittersweet mood that<br />
will haunt viewers.<br />
Stephen Farber<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
With the support of the European Commission’s programme on<br />
enlargement of the European Union<br />
40 BOOK ONLINE AT JDIFF.COM
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