Kneecap
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“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom”
Overview
When a Belfast schoolteacher crashes into the orbit of two unpredictable and raucous best-friends, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, and JJ Ó Dochartaigh leap onto the screen to play themselves (alongside Michael Fassbender) in this heightened comedy-drama about the anarchic group, Kneecap, who become unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue. Armed with a blend of native Irish and English verses and furious, politically charged rhymes, the trio must overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians trying to silence their defiant ketamine-fuelled sound.
“The combination of the profane and the political, the riotous humour and punchy editing makes for one of the more energising viewing experiences of the year, and possibly one of the funniest”
“A clarion call to every anti-colonial movement, and it’s fun!”
“A film that not only signals a major musical arrival, but ends up feeling a lot bigger than the conventional (and often confining) boundaries of the “music biopic””
Why You Should See This Film
A fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic with a strong anti-colonial rallying cry, Kneecap is nothing short of electrifying. Transcending the constraints of the vanilla musician biopic we’re all so tired of, director Rich Peppiatt breathes new life into the form with unchained cinematic flare by casting the group as themselves, playing with fiction and fact to explore their socio-political context with a particular focus on resistance against language erasure. An indigenous language dies out every 40 days and Kneecap is here loud and proud to make sure we all read the subtitles.
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