It’s released very soon and looks excellent.
2018 has been a memorable one for Irish cinema with some excellent documentaries and feature-length films being released.
Titles like Michael Inside, Dublin Oldschool, Black 47 and Making the Grade have all received positive reviews but there has also been a very welcome increase in the appetite for documentary features about Irish history.
The recent documentary about Bobby Sands really struck a chord with viewers and with I, Dolours set to be released soon, it’s clear that the demand for captivating stories about Irish history and nationalism is showing no signs of diminishing.
On this note, The Image You Missed aims to show a different side of The Troubles by depicting the complexities of a father/son relationship at a time of massive division, violence and socio-political upheaval.
Plot’s it all about?: Donal Foreman, a passionate cinephile and keen filmmaker since childhood, grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian, Arthur MacCaig, whose decades-long preoccupation with the Troubles in Northern Ireland produced several films and a vast archive of Republican experience and sensibility.
Drawing on over 30 years of previously unseen imagery, The Image You Missed is a documentary essay that weaves together a history of the Troubles with the haunting but unsentimental story of a son’s search for his father. In the process, the film creates a candid encounter between two filmmakers born into different countries and different political moments, revealing their contrasting experiences of Irish nationalism, the role of images in social struggle, and the competing claims of personal and political responsibility.
Take a look at what’s in store.
Clip via – International Film Festival Rotterdam
Director: Donal Foreman.
Release date: August 10th – but as of now, it’s only going to be screened in Dublin’s IFI and the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork. Here’s hoping that it gets a wider release.
Some exciting news: The Image You Missed will have its Irish theatrical release in a couple of weeks! Catch it at the @IFI_Dub from August 10th and the @TriskelCork from August 12th. Tickets for the IFI premiere already on sale here: https://t.co/j37l5BFxXa #theimageyoumissed pic.twitter.com/LOgRpDnNRG
— The Image You Missed (@imageyoumissed) July 25, 2018
Reviews: Here’s what The Hollywood Reporter said about it: “The Image You Missed arguably functions most effectively as an impressionistic primer on tumultuous Ulster affairs during and after the Troubles, providing vivid glimpses of a violent epoch whose controversial repercussions continue to periodically reverberate across the British Isles and beyond.”
Film Ireland – “In addition to being about his relationship with his father, Foreman’s film acts as a window into the conflict in the North during the Troubles.”
The Irish Times – “Superb”
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