Tuesday, 19 June 2018

The Second Death (2000 John Michael McDonagh & scr)

His debut, a very short film about a man in a pub with heart palpitations, and a weird story about a girl who went missing, and was then found. We didn't really get what that was about, but the incidental details of the pub's inhabitants are in his usual dry, irreverent and funny style.

With Liam Cunningham, Michelle Fairley, Aidan Gillen, Owen Sharpe, David Wilmot, Dermot Healy, Gary Lydon, Roxanna Nic Liam.

This led to him writing a screenplay for Ned Kelly, which was then completely re-written and had all the humour taken out of it. It was another eight years before The Guard (and it's on the Blu-Ray of this that you'll find this short).

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