John Kelly is joined by singer and actress Camille O’Sullivan, Irish Times film journalist, Donald Clarke and NCAD’s fine art lecturer, Declan Long.
WHAT’S ON, SUMMARY:
– Neil Jordan’s new Hollywood thriller, The Brave One.
– Gerard Depardieu plays an ageing showband crooner in The Singer.
– David Thewlis’s first novel The Late Hector Kipling
– Contrasts and Complementaries, Stephen McKenna’s new exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery
FILM:
The Brave One by Neil Jordan
Jodie Foster plays Erica Bain, a New York radio presenter whose successful life is turned upside down during a vicious assault in which her fiancé is murdered and she is badly wounded.
Bain takes justice into her own hands, combing the streets at night for the perpetrators, earning herself an unexpected notoriety with a public intrigued by her anonymous actions.
The Singer by Xavier Giannoli
Gerard Depardieu is Alain Moreau, a kind of Gallic Joe Dolan, playing gigs in provincial hotels and old folks’ homes, when he meets and falls for Marion, a young mother in the middle of a difficult break-up with her partner.
BOOKS:
The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis
Actor David Thewlis takes a satirical look at the contemporary British art scene in his acclaimed debut novel, in which successful artist, Hector Kipling sees opportunity for aggrandisement when his best friend Kirk Church reveals he may have a brain tumour.
ART:
Contrasts and Complementaries by Stephen McKenna
The ports of Naples, Porto and Lisbon provide the subject matter for the large-scale paintings in artist Stephen McKenna’s 10th exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery.
Plus music from Xavier Rudd.
THE VIEW IS PRODUCED BY RTÉ TELEVISION.