Badly-made but at times an impressive and moving film about two students. Both have English backgrounds, got bullied, and are sociable outsiders in Dublin. Some terrible camerawork (where's the ND filter?), an annoying Australian narrator, crap Indie bands on the soundtrack, too many closeups of everyone, and overlong. But some scenes are really good: the dork gives up looking for a woman and hires a hooker; the Bressie lookalike visits London to see an ex-girlfriend, the fact that no-one seems to mind the scars on the dork's face, and the intercutting of their different scenes together. It's strange seeing two straight men care for each other (as in Midnight cowboy). Not as well made as the other non-Film Board stuff (WC, Anton, 8.5 hours) but unlike those the director, Daire McNab, seems to have genuine talent.
Title: Gingerbread men
Genre: Students
New/old: New
Cinema/DVD: DVD
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