Acclaimed Irish music video director Aoife McArdle makes her feature film debut in Toronto this year with Kissing Candice, a drama set along Ireland's North/South border.
The coming-of-age feature stars Red Rock actress Ann Skelly and a cast of young up-and-comers, all playing kids desperate to escape the boredom of life in a small seaside town and finding solace in their imagination and in increasingly dangerous escapades.
McArdle made her name with music videos for the likes of U2 (Every Breaking Wave) and Brian Ferry (Loop Di Li) as well as numerous television commercials.
The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive...
The coming-of-age feature stars Red Rock actress Ann Skelly and a cast of young up-and-comers, all playing kids desperate to escape the boredom of life in a small seaside town and finding solace in their imagination and in increasingly dangerous escapades.
McArdle made her name with music videos for the likes of U2 (Every Breaking Wave) and Brian Ferry (Loop Di Li) as well as numerous television commercials.
The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive...
- 9/6/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The video for U2's new Songs of Innocence single, "Every Breaking Wave," dramatizes the wave of violence that swept Northern Ireland in the Eighties. Belfast-born filmmaker Aoife McArdle made the clip using footage from her 13-minute short film, Every Breaking Wave, which came out earlier this month and made use of the U2 song of the same name and Songs of Innocence's final cut "The Troubles." The video opens with images of moshing and crowdsurfing at a punk show — made surreal with U2's serene soundtrack — as... Read the rest of U2 Relive Northern Ireland's Violent Past in 'Every Breaking Wave' Video at RollingStone.com...
- 2/24/2015
- by Kory Grow - Rolling Stone
- Hitfix
The Creators Project has released a new short film directed by Aoife McArdle called "Every Breaking Wave." The film follows two teenagers, one Catholic, the other Protestant, who fall in love in 1980s Northern Ireland and is based on "Every Breaking Wave" and "The Troubles," two tracks from U2's most recent album "Songs of Innocence." Describing her inspiration, McArdle said, "I wanted to make a film about what it was like to be a teenager in the early '80s in Northern Ireland. Violence was inescapable on your doorstep. I remember very vividly what it was like to grow up when there were bombs going off and army everywhere." The short has been praised by both Spike Jonze and "Birdman" director Alejandro González Iñárritu. Founded by a partnership between Intel and Vice, The Creators Project celebrates and supports visionary artists across multiple disciplines who are...
- 2/20/2015
- by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold
- Indiewire
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