Rocky Road to Dublin

Product Description The last film screened at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival (before it was halted following protests by filmmakers lead by Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut), the landmark documentary ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN is a stunningly evocative, "Beautiful, energetic, and uncompromising!" (New York Magazine) portrait of 1960s Ireland. Featuring the inspired cinematography of legendary French New Wave pioneer Raoul Coutard, and an incisive, literate voice-over commentary by the director Lennon (an Irish journalist then living in Paris), ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN captures an Ireland on the cusp of enormous social changes but still mired in a regressive, semi-theocratic mentality. The reaction to the film and it s history (as well as the tumultuous events in Cannes) are recounted in THE MAKING OF ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, also included on this DVD. This new film reunites Peter Lennon and Raoul Coutard. Review Magnificent! One of the most beautiful documentaries the cinema has given us. --Les Cahiers du Cinema Inspired by the modernism of the French New Wave and close in tone to the wry essay-films of Chris Marker. --The New York Times Glows with idealism: a brilliant, affectionate, exasperated portrait of his native land, in thrall to reactionary politics and a repressive church, decades after throwing off the English yoke. Almost 40 years on... [it] still has a blazing raw energy, coupled with shrewd insight. --The Guardian