Decades before Michael Moore, Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and legendary French Nouvelle Vague director of photography Raoul Coutard managed to get a society to condemn itself on camera.
In Rocky Road to Dublin, Ireland’s patriotic sportsmen, priests, censors and ‘brain-washed’ children unwittingly convey the truth about a repressed, suppressed and massively censored Republic. Lennon and Coutard expose the hypocrisy of church, politics and state through a series of seemingly ‘innocent’ interviews. Unsurprisingly, after one screening in a Dublin cinema in 1968, it was banned for more than three decades.
The film will be accompanied by a screening of the short documentary The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin.