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Rocky Road To Dublin

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Format:	DVD

Starring:	Peter Lennon

Director:	Raoul Coutard

Screen:	Aspect Ratio 1.85:1

Languages:	English

Subtitles:	French

No. of Disks:	1

Region:	Region 0

Release Date:	24 October 2005

Availability:	In stock \| Usually dispatched within 24 hours

Decades before Michael Moore, Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and legendary French 'Nouvelle Vague' director of photography Raoul Coutard managed to get a society to condemn itself on camera. In Rocky Road to Dublin (1968), Ireland's patriotic sportsmen, priests, censors and 'brain-washed' children unwittingly convey the truth about a repressed and massively censored Republic. Lennon and Coutard expose the hypocrisy of church, politics and state through a series of seemingly 'innocent' interviews. Unsurprisingly, after one screening in a Dublin cinema in 1968, it was suppressed for more than three decades - never released in Ireland nor ever shown on Irish television.

Restored by Loopline films in 2004 and by the Irish Film Board and complemented by a new film (The Making of Rocky Road, dir. Paul Duane) of additional footage featuring Lennon and Coutard revisiting the issues in contemporary context, the ensemble piece tells the complete story of the Rocky Road. In The Making of Rocky Road, Coutard breaks his silence by coming out of retirement to tell his story of the making of this revolutionary film: the La Haine of its day, set against the social and political backdrop of Dublin in the sixties. It features previously unreleased footage of Lennon confronting Godard and Truffaut in a furious debate surrounding the shutting down of Cannes, as well as the Paris Demonstrations that occurred surrounding the screening at the Sorbonne in full 'revolutionary' swing.

Peter Lennon, a veteran Guardian journalist working in Paris at the time, had never shot a foot of film in his life. But the zeitgeist of the times - la nouvelle vague - was a revolt against conventional filmmaking, allowing anyone to express him or herself with a camera. Lennon close to question the idea of: 'What do you do with your revolution once you've got it?' A very topical debate indeed.