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Release
date: Mar 19,1999
Music
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Director: Liam McGrath
Produced
by: Paddy Breathnach, Robert
Walpole
Screenplay: Liam McGrath
Director of
Photography: Cian de Buitléar
Starring: Francis
Barrett, Chick Gillen, Tom Humphries, Colum Flynn, Nicolas
Cruz Hernandez.
Production Company: Channel Four Films, Treasure, Bórd
Scannán na hÉirann
Distributors: Downtown Pictures, Shooting
Gallery
Official website: not
available
Music Composed by Dario
Marianelli
Conducted by Dario
Marianelli
Orchestrated by Dario
Marianelli
Music Produced by Dario
Marianelli
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Plot summary: The first I heard of
Francie Barret, the subject of _Southpaw_ was during the 1996
Olymplics, when a Right-Wing Asshole I had the misfortune to
live with complained that "we had a knacker flying the flag
for us" `Knacker' is a term of derision roughly eqivilant to
`nigger' used to describe the intinerent community from which
Francie comes, and this comment epitomises some of the
prejudices he has to confront in the course of this
documentary. He comes across as being a decent, honest young
boxer who demonstrates the absurdity of the racial prjudice
which stoll exists towards travelling people in Ireland, a
prejudice as vitriolic in some cases as the worst that Irish
people had to face when disembarking in Britain or the U.S. in
the past. Coming from a community who choose to live in a
relatively primative way, he never seems fazed by the
prescence of the camera, and his trainers and friends seem
equally cinegenic. It's a documentary that takes few chances
stylistically, and never tries to romanticise his career a la
_Rocky_ but isn't any the worse for that. those wishing to
learn about Ireland's Travelling community will find this a
welcome antidote to the sentimentalisation of _Into the West_
or the paddywhackery of _Trojan
Eddie. |
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