Calvary to Premiere at US Sundance Festival
The prestigious film festival, set up by Robert Redford in 1978, hosts international premieres every year and next month it will host the premiere of “Calvary”.
The film, written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, stars Brendan Gleeson as a parish priest whose life is threatened in the confessional and who must continue to do good in the face of hostility from his community.
Described as ‘blackly comic’, it is the first film from McDonagh since his low-budget hit “The Guard” in 2011.The film was shot in various locations around County Sligo late last year, but mostly in the village of Easkey in West Sligo. It also stars Chris O’Dowd, Aidan Gillen, Killian Scott and Brendan’s actor son Domhnall Gleeson.
Meanwhile, Brendan Gleeson will be back in Sligo on January 10 to play alongside three celebrated Irish musicians at the Hawk’s Well Theatre.Gleeson, an accomplished fiddler in his own right, will be playing a night of old time Irish and Cajun music with performers Dirk Powell, Michael McGoldrick and Francis Gaffney on Friday, January 10.
Tickets for that show are available from the Hawk’s Well box office on 071-9161518.