Monday, 7 June 2010

Moondance

Typical movie made here back in the '90s. Coming of age drama, rural vs urban settings, lush cinematography, Van Morrison on the soundtrack, family tensions, emigration, and Brendan Grace! A German girl divides two brothers. Cinema for middle-aged housewives, the kind of rubbish the IFB decided was the way forward for Irish cinema but ended up in a cul-de-sac.
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