Award Winning Irish Film Garage Opens in Cinemas Across UK
Garage, the award-winning Irish film, directed by Lenny Abrahamson opens in cinemas across the UK today and has been receiving very positive reviews in the British press this week.This is the second collaboration from director Abrahamson and writer Mark O'Halloran, the team behind the award-winning Adam & Paul, which the Financial Times describes as ‘maybe the best thing that has ever happened to Irish cinema'.
Starring Irish comedian Pat Shortt as the well-meaning misfit and petrol station attendant Josie, Garage is the story of a man's hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his life changed forever. The Independent said that the part of Josie was ‘beautifully played by Shortt.... It should be considered one of the great performances of the year.' Shortt scooped the Best Actor awards at the recent IFTA's as well as at the Monte Carlo Film Festival last year.
Reviews have said that ‘films like Garage come along all too rarely. See it. Cherish it' (The Daily Telegraph), while others describe it as ‘a gem of a film' (The Guardian).
Produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe for Element Pictures, the film won the CICAE Award at last year's Cannes Film Festival and has also picked up prizes at a host of international festivals including Dinard, Turin, Festival de Chatenay Malabry and Festival Cinessone.
Garage opens today, March 7 in London at the Curzon in Soho, the Gate in Notting Hill and at the Clapham Picturehouse.