East Limerick, Ireland, 1984. The Ormond Cinema is showing Breathless (the Richard Gere one). But this will not be like any other night in the theatre’s 40-year history. The pipes are fit to burst, the rats are running rampage, and the projectionist is drunk. In fact, the way things are going, there may not be another night…
Writer-director David Gleeson comes from a cinema-background himself, his family owned a theatre in his youth. So there’s an element of Cinema Paradiso-like nostalgia here. But being an Irish film, not Italian, this is a lot less romantic and considerably bigger on laughs… Unfolding in real-time, as Breathless plays out in the background, dare we say it’s a movie you should only experience in a cinema… ?
Touching, funny, and rings of authenticity.
Deadline Hollywood
A well-crafted, beautifully shot ode to film, cinema, and the idea that sometimes, the value of a building is much more than the sum of its parts.
Film Threat
David Gleeson
Colin Morgan, Calam Lynch, Niamh Cusack, India Mullen, Stanley Townsend, Liam O’Brien
Ireland
2026
English
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Credits
Screenwriter
David Gleeson
Cinematography
Hyun De Grande
Editor
Bertrand Conard, John Murphy
Original Music
Perrine Virgile
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