In case you hadn't noticed, Irish cinema has been having a moment. Part of it is due to Colin Farrell’s eyebrows and a donkey called Jenny. But a massive contribution made this year has come from Colm Bairéad’s An Cailín Ciúin. The film has made history as the first time Ireland has been nominated for the Best International Picture Oscar.
COLLIDER: Obviously, it's a massive year for Irish cinema. I just want to warm up by asking what are your favorite Irish films, and who are the Irish filmmakers who've inspired you in your career? I want to go back to the very start of this process. What was it about Claire Keegan's novella that made you not just make it into a film, but make it into an Irish-language film? Did you start the book thinking, "Oh, I might adapt this," or did you just stumble upon it and say, "I want to make this film"?
BAIRÉAD: I feel like the book ends on such a beautiful, perfect moment. And to me, what happens afterward is kind of irrelevant. And I feel like the story has stated its case in a way, by that point. I think everything else afterward is by the by, to some extent. But also, I like that it leaves room for the audience to project their sort of interpretation of how Cáit's life might play out from that point.
I do think anyone with a sense of Irish society at that time can still feel the sort of presence of all of these sorts of structures societally in the background as it were. Even the fact that Cáit's mother is pregnant again with an unwanted child is essentially a sort of commentary on the fact that women themselves had far less agency in terms of their reproduction. And there's no access to contraception really at that point.
ColmBairead I can not over emphasise how much this film touched me. I cried for days. I still cry. It's truly the best film I've ever seen - and I've seen a lot. It captured the very essence of Irish society, back then, to perfection.
ColmBairead Lovely interview. Amazing film. “Colm directed a docuseries called The Joy, about one of Ireland's largest prisons, Mountjoy.” Let’s hope nobody ever commissions him to write a documentary about bigoted Enoch Burke’s time at The Joy!
ColmBairead A beautiful movie, and an excellent interview 👍👍
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