Charades, shifts and sinking ships – Valentine’s viewing from the Film In Dublin team

Charades, shifts and sinking ships – Valentine’s viewing from the Film In Dublin team

Love is in the air in the fair city of film. Across Dublin’s cinemas, there’s plenty of Valentine’s Day screenings afoot, whether it’s The People’s Joker at the Light House, romance rescreenings at the Stella, or 80th anniversary screenings of heartbreaking classic Brief Encounter at the IFI. The new Bridget Jones is out, as is…

Beasts & Babygirls – do audiences know their own desires?

Beasts & Babygirls – do audiences know their own desires?

“Get on your knees” Harris Dickinson orders Nicole Kidman, as their characters tentatively crawl into a sub-dom affair in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. His character means it, but in the moment he does something disarming; he laughs, his cocky intern Samuel struck by the absurdity of ordering the older, steely CEO Romy Mathis around sexually, when…