Paul Duane

Oct 4, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Leslie Felperin |Paul Duane |Lou Thomas

In Marta Mateus’s startlingly beautiful feature debut Fire of Wind, workers on a vineyard in Portugal’s Alentejo region are forced to take to the trees after a bull gets loose in the fields. Up in the branches, they spend a night as a temporary community, their thoughts haunted by the ghosts of the past and the long shadow of the authoritarian regime of António de Oliveira Salazar, who governed Portugal from 1932 to 1968.

Oct 3, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Leslie Felperin |Linda Williams |Paul Duane |Lou Thomas

Nearly every scene in Catherine Breillat’s disturbing, beautiful and enigmatic new film Romance has a voiceover by its central character Marie (Caroline Ducey). For all its striking imagery the movie has a literary quality, emphasising the word over the image, reminding one that the French words for ‘romance’ and ‘novel’ (‘roman’) share the same linguistic root.

Sep 16, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Paul Duane |Roger Luckhurst |Adam Scovell |Lou Thomas

The Outcasts, which tells the story of a ‘mad’ young woman in pre-famine Ireland who meets a feared shaman and has her powerful true nature revealed to her, is the great lost classic of Irish cinema. Combining gritty realism in its depiction of rural Irish poverty, sexual frankness and mythic grandeur, it had a tremendously powerful effect on Irish cinephiles of a certain age, myself included, but has been impossible to see in any decent form in the four decades since its release.

Apr 7, 2024 | horrorbuzz.com | Paul Duane |Brian Fanelli

Overlook Film Festival 2024 – With recent films like Hole in the Ground, Boys from County Hell, Mandrake, and The Cellar, it’s fair to say there’s a new wave of Irish horror happening. All You Need Is Death, written and directed by Paul Duane, is the latest bit of terror to emerge from the Emerald Isle. This one is a blend of cosmic frights and folk horror that drips with dread. The film stars Simone Collins as Anna and Charlie Maher as Aleks.

Mar 28, 2024 | metacritic.com | Paul Duane

March Movie Preview (2024) Keith Kimbell The month ahead will bring a conclusion to the Dune saga, a Ghostbusters sequel, an indie comedy with terrific early reviews, and more. To help you plan your moviegoing options, our editors have selected the most notable films releasing in March 2024.