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Rounding off the Phoenix Cinema's season of Irish films will be Tom Collins’ award-winning film “Kings” based on Jimmy Murphy’s play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road.
Tom Collins’s raw and tender film, is a beautifully shot depiction of the isolation felt by Irish migrants who struggle to find a place to called home. Filmed on location in London and Dublin, when emigration from Ireland to England was still at it’s height, Kings is a bi-lingual film, which shifts between the Irish and English language, telling the story of a lost generation; a of a group of young men who leave Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London, filled with ambition and hope for a better life. 30 years later they meet up at a friends funeral. Their muscle has been spent, their hopes dashed on the roads and building sites of Britain, to be replaced with a sense of hopeless disaffection.
The film according to Variety, “offers a trenchant look at the Irish immigrant experience.” It is a film about identity, humanity, disenfranchisement, and the Immigrants struggle of living in a foreign land. This film will have subtitles
Followed by a Q&A Names to be Announced.
This season of. Films was curated by Sé Merry Doyle. The season includes
Sunday May 31st 2pm:
“John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man”. Directed by Sé Merry Doyle.
Sunday June 7th 2pm
“Anne Devlin”. Directed by Pat Murphy
Sunday June 14th 2pm
“Rocky Road To Dublin”. Directed by Peter Lennon
Sunday June 28th 2pm
“My Left Foot” Directed by Jim Sheridan
Sunday July 12th 2pm
“Michael Collins”. Directed by Neil Jordan
Sunday July 19th
“Kings”. Written and Directed by Tom Collins
(Kings is a bi-lingual film - English & Irish, with subtitles)ounding off the Phoenix Cinema's season of Irish films will be Tom Collins’ award-winning film “Kings” based on