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Bookmark this pageThe Return (1988)
Director: Phil Mulloy
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From Time Out Film Guide
First feature in ages (since Give Us This Day in 1982, in fact) from one of Britain's most talented independent film-makers: a powerful, claustrophobic drama that uncovers Oedipal passions in the mind of a desperate Irishman facing eviction from his docklands slum. Literate writing and magnificent performances wring maximum intensity from a plot sprung on flashbacks and fantasies. It sounds like the usual social-realist guff, but it plays more like a Borges condundrum.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Phil Mulloy
Producer: Phil Mulloy
Cast: Tony Guilfoyle, Oengus Macnamara, Lesley Nightingale full cast
Duration: 85 mins
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