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First Irish-language film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
Story
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue..
Belfastperformed by Orbital
Caitlin: A country without a language is only half a nation.. Referenced in Film Junk Podcast : Episode 961: In a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024).
I watched Kneecap early as part of AMC’s Screen Unseen
I had never heard of it so it was a fun experience going in completely blind.Kneecap is a fun movie with likeable characters and some beastly music. As a rap fan, I was impressed with the rhyming as well as the HARD beats.
And the movie overall is stylistic in a very cool wayThe themes of this movie stood out the most
It does a great job demonstrating subjects like cultural preservation, historical trauma being engrained in your DNA, and resisting against the control of your colonizer. As a Palestinian, all of these themes hit me hard.The only downside I have is not being able to understand a lot of the dialogue.
This is due to the accents and slang, as well as references to Ireland-specific terms
If you watch this in theaters, you may want to ask for a closed captioning device.Erin go Bragh (Ireland Forever) and Free Palestine!(1 viewing, early screening AMC Screen Unseen 7/22/2024)
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