Sony Pictures Classics Courts Young Demos, Music Buffs With Irish Trio ‘Kneecap’: “What ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ Must Have Felt Like” — Specialty Preview
deadline.com‘Kneecap’, the name of the Irish hip hop group, and the music biopic about — and starring — the groundbreaking trio, opens today on 700+ screens, following up a U.S.
tour last fall and leading into another one. The hybrid documentary, which was a buzzy Sundance title when Sony Pictures Classics nabbed it, recently swept the Galway Film Fleadh and was named Ireland’s Oscar International Feature submission.
Written and directed by Rich Peppiatt, it features group members — Naoise Ó Cairealláin “Móglaí Bap”; Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh “Mo Chara”; and JJ Ó Dochartaigh “Dj Provaí” as themselves, but it’s scripted, and actors, including Michael Fassbender, play their younger selves and family members.
With Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Adam Best and Simone Kirby. The film follows Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed “low-life scum” Naoise and Liam Og.
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