Quintessentially Irish documentary March 12

[mkelly]

deadline.com/2024/02/irish-film-release-st-patricks-day-pierce-brosnan-andrew-scott-sharon-horgan-1235839391/


EXCLUSIVE: UK production and distribution outfit Swipe Films has recently completed post-production on under-the-radar feature documentary Quintessentially Irish, which it has sold globally to Vision Films (ex UK & Ire).



The film celebrates what it is to be Irish with celebrities and politicians offering their take on the Emerald Isle. It explores some of Ireland’s most beautiful sights and famous exports, including the origins of whiskey (which the Scottish also lay claim to), Guinness, horseracing, Gaelic sports and Ireland’s oldest inhabited castle at Dunsany.


Interviewees include Navan-born Pierce Brosnan, Bob Geldof, Andrew Scott, Sharon Horgan, Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, and Prince Albert II of Monaco, discussing the Irish heritage of his mother, the Oscar winning actress Grace Kelly... [it will be] released in the U.S. theatrically and on VOD on March 12 ahead of St. Patrick’s Day. Swipe’s distribution arm will release in the UK and Ireland on April 26.


You can see a Vimeo promo clip for the project here  vimeo.com/902375098/5bee2d9820

[Barbara]

I was very surprised they mentioned Bond and him being Irish playing Bond. That is going to open a whole big can of worms. I kind of have a feeling which way this will go, but I will sit on my hands until the documentary comes out.

-- Barbara

[mkelly]

I watched this on Prime rental and PB is the through line narrator sharing familiar and not so familiar anecdotes - very interesting documentary - recommended. The DVD can be pre-ordered on Amazon.