Saturday 19 October 2019

On The Edge (2000, rel. 2001 John Carney & co-scr)

Early Cillian Murphy, one of Carney's first too. A young man who has tried to kill himself spends three months in a psychiatric hospital and falls for a troubled Irish-American, Tricia Vessey (both really good; she was also in Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai). All the acting's good. With Stephen Rea as the counsellor, Paul Hickey, Jonathan Jackson, Marcella Plunkett, Tomás Ó Súilleabháin. Funny too, of course.

A bit of a family affair with Martin Carney as the vicar, Liam Carney in bowling alley. Has lots of music on the soundtrack and John's own incidental music is rather good (he was initially a musician); eclectic soundtrack ranges from Doves to Herb Alpert in party scene!



Photographed by Eric Edwards (Life of Crime, Knocked Up).

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