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Between the Canals (2011) is a English movie. Mark O'Connor has directed this movie. Peter Coonan,Dan Hyland,Stephen Jones,Damien Dempsey are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. Between the Canals (2011) is considered one of the best Crime,Drama movie in India and around the world.
Between The Canals follows three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City as they each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society. Liam (Hyland) is a small time dealer who wants to quit his life of crime to become an electrician and provide for his girlfriend and son. Dots (Coonan), is a crazy, irresponsible thug with ambitions to become a big time dealer. Scratchcard (Jones), is a drug user with no ambitions but to stay on social welfare and watch the world go by. Liam is torn between life in the flats and his responsibility to be a good father to his son. He has to just get through this one day and maybe things will look brighter on the other side. But it's Saint Patrick's Day and, in Dublin City, this means trouble everywhere.
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Between the Canals (2011) Reviews
It started off OK
It actually could have been a half decent movie if it had actually gone with what it started with. Instead after about 1 hour it turned to the usual ridiculous RUBBISH we see about Ireland. Who makes this rubbish? are they self bent on portraying the Irish as STUPID violent drunks? It isn't "Trainspotting" that was done 30 years ago, it lacks originality, it lacks quality, it could have been so much more but the t@at that put it together seemed hell bent on trying to make the Irish look like some sort of trendy Gangster types, in the end he portrayed them as nothing more than drunken retards! Shame, a possibly good movie ruined by a twonk that wanted to pay some sad sort of "Homage" to better movies from 30 years ago!
Enjoyable, shameless copy
I watched this film before reading any reviews, and was immediately suspicious after the first set piece of Jonny and the dustbin. The main character made an enviable mirror image and obviously studied the Jonny from Meanstreets Character in detail. The film I think would have reaped benefits from a more subtle influence rather than a direct ape. The main Character in particular compels empathy, and the bleak environment will seem all too familiar to UK Towns and Cities not just Irish. The dialect is difficult to comprehend at times, but is authentic and worth the effort to understand. All the same, I found the film compelling and enjoyed the characters.
Watch this film
Well i've been a big contributor to the IMDb forum for a few years now and finally i get to comment on a film directed by my brother Mark. I may be a little biased but Mark has done a great job here, it's very gritty and realistic - it makes the commercial 'gangster' films like the general and intermission seem real artificial because you can tell with those films that they are actors. Mark used almost all non-actors who lived in those areas of the inner city we rarely see on the big screen. Mark's film entered the IFI cinema in Dublin two days ago and it will run for another 5 days. It will then be decided if it moves to the multiplexes. Check it out, it's great.
Children Please
This....'movie'...was recommended to me by a friend. I wanted to like it, I really did. A young director trying to do something authentic....this was said to be Mean Streets with a Tarantino twist. This is film making of the poorest level, its simply drivel.The writer/director Mark O Connor substitutes character development with the idea that calling your embarrassingly amateur cast names like Limbo and Foot and Mouth can somehow make this 90 minutes of torture seem raw and powerful....this is a truly terrible...film..for the want of a better word. Its on youtube in its awful entirety because it, thankfully, never made it to mainstream distribution....the one positive of this sorry mess.
An excellent film
The characters were established early in the film and the acting, I thought, was superb, a few of the young children were clearly aware of the camera, but the acting was a million miles from wooden. Some of the devices and sub plots from TV shows like The Wire are kind of inevitable when the movie is dealing with a similar sub-culture. Although I am an English speaker who is fairly used to Irish accents, I found, not the accent, but the vocabulary and expressions of the protagonists quite hard to follow. The story was well written and although it had a limited narrative,it was, almost like a documentary, able to describe the community quickly and the main players were put into context simply by showing authority and deference,a nice touch. There is an inevitability about this type of tale and most of tension comes from waiting to see how and who is responsible for the denouement. I will have to watch it a few more times to follow the dialogue but as I love Irish films, for me, it will be an investment worth making.