Movie
Atlantean
1984 · 165 min
A slow, scholarly essay film that asks you to sit with maps, faces and long stretches of coastline while it quietly dismantles a national myth.
- Directed by
- Bob Quinn
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- Documentary about the Irish, dispelling the myth that they are all of pure Celtic heritage, but showing them as the mix of races they really are, and portraying the island not as the remote outpost of Europe most people think it is, but as a busy meeting place for seafaring traders of the Atlantic all through history.
- How it feels
- Measured and demanding.
- About
- Identity, race, immigration, colonialism
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Bob Quinn
- Genres
- Documentary