Rocky Road to Dublin

September. 30,1968

Rating：

7.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Ireland Catholicism Roman Catholic Church

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Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon examines the contemporary (1967) state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, “What do you do with your revolution once you’ve got it?” It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and clerical traditionalism at the time of its making.

John Huston as Self

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Reviews

Pacionsbo

1968/09/30

Absolutely Fantastic

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InformationRap

1968/10/01

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Myron Clemons

1968/10/02

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

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Sarita Rafferty

1968/10/03

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

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Mark Coffey

1968/10/04

Rocky Road was the last film shown at the 1968 Cannes festival which was shutdown in soladarity with the student revolts in Paris. The students adopted Rocky Road and screened it in the vast amphitheatres of the Sorbonne, which was still besieged by riot police.Lennon's theme was what do you do with a revolution once you've won. Lennon found that you give it straight back to the Bourgeoisie. At the centre of the film is the iron grip the Catholic Church held on Ireland after British occupation.We see the young and hip Fr. Michael Cleary singing Chatanooga Shoeshine Boy to a maternity ward. We then see him extolling the virtues of celibacy and sex within marriage, this long before it was known that he had fathered 2 children by his housekeeper.The film couldn't be banned in Ireland (the censors comment to the director was: "Since there is no sex in the film, Peter, there is nothing I can do against you.") It was only picked up by one Dublin cinema for a short run. The church's iron grip on the country was thus shown when no other cinema dared show the film.Luckily things have changed enough that the Irish Film Institute has seen fit to restore the film and nearly 40 years after it was made it is again being shown in it's own country.

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