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Releasing on Aug 2, 2024
- 2024
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 45 m
- 2024
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 45 m
Summary There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio become unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.
Directed By: Rich Peppiatt
Written By: Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvai
- 2024
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 45 m
- 2024
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 45 m
Kneecap
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Summary There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio become unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.
Directed By: Rich Peppiatt
Written By: Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvai
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
81
91% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Rich Peppiatt’s feature debut spins the freewheeling cinematic language of Edgar Wright and Guy Ritchie into a fun, heartwarming, and suitably raunchy celebration of the Irish language.
The funniest thing to come out of Belfast since [fill in the blank if you can], Kneecap is a riot which strains let’s-form-a-band film tropes (they’re the ‘shit Beatles’ via The Commitments), stirs in some Monty Python, sucks up the Young Offenders in all its shell-suited glory and blows it out at audiences in a blast of two-fingered audaciity.
An audacious film that completely obliterates the expectations of the musical biopic genre.
There is a fair number of gags and wisecracks that will go over the head of many viewers not steeped in the local lore, argot and history. But the film’s infectious energy, use of in-camera effects, animation and all manner of jiggery pokery is as mesmerizing and giddy as it was when Danny Boyle used many of the same tricks for Trainspotting.
Much of Rich Peppiatt’s film isn’t about respectability, but rather debasement, and sugar-coating Kneecap’s widespread antics isn’t on the menu.
The film captures the what of Kneecap but also the why, which makes all the difference.
After pushing up against the confines of a conventional musical biopic, it does end up mostly operating within them, hitting all the notes you’d expect it to hit, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t ring mostly true when it counts.
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Production Company
British Film Institute (BFI),
Coimisiún na Meán,
Curzon Film Distributors,
DMC Film,
Fine Point Films,
Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland,
Great Point Media,
Mother Tongues Films,
Naughty Step,
Northern Ireland Screen,
TG4,
Wildcard Production
Release Date Aug 2, 2024
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating R
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
