Monday, September 26, 2011

Knuckle

I had to be talked into seeing this, the only documentary of the festival.  Knuckle follows an Irish gypsy family, the Quinn-McDonaghs, for a decade of illegal bare-knuckle brawls with rival gypsy family with whom they are closely intertwined.  The film spends a lot of time asking Why? but never seems to find a satisfactory answer.  All I can say is that no fake blood was required for this film.

Knuckle
2011, 97 minutes, directed by Ian Palmer

The director chose to subtitle the Irish English, but only prints the gist of each sentence.  Watching the discrepancies between what is quoted and what's actually said is half the fun of seeing this.

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