Movie
The Fires
2023 · 90 min
A quiet, austere black-and-white meditation on memory and return, slow and inward, asking patience as it lingers on isolation and unresolved grief.
- Directed by
- Andrew Thomas
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Oisín Porter, Aine Flanagan, Cillian Browne
- Tagline
- A young man returns from Canada to his old ancestral home in rural Ireland to say goodbye to his past before moving on to the next stage of life.
- Overview
- Having lived illegally in Canada for the past eight years, Danny Gallagher returns to his family home in rural Donegal. He spends his days isolated, seeking to make sense of the bruises left by his past by recording an audio tape for a person that he no longer knows. Only when the tape is finished, and the house is cleared, can he finally move on.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, bleak, eerie and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Isolation, memory, immigration, grief
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Andrew Thomas
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Oisín Porter, Aine Flanagan, Cillian Browne
