All You Need is Death

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CINEMAS ONLY – SYDNEY | MELBOURNE | CANBERRA | BRISBANE | PERTH

Director : Paul Duane

Stars : Simone Collins, Charlie Maher, Catherine Siggins

Duration : 90 mins

Language : English

Genre : Horror

Rating : M

Original Release : 19 April 2024 (Ireland)

SYNOPSIS : Anna and Aleks are song collectors –tracking down and recording obscure Irish folk songs to sell them to a network of rich collectors. Via the mysterious ‘mentor’ Agnes, they hear about a woman, Rita, who is rumoured to have songs that have never been recorded. They track her down in the remote Irish countryside but find that Agnes has beaten them to it. But Rita refuses to sing for her. Anna gains her trust by unplugging her hidden recording device, and Rita sings a ballad in an ancient tongue that has been passed down from mother to daughter in her family, telling the story of an ancient atrocity. They leave, but Agnes has surreptitiously recorded the song. Rita is viciously murdered by an unseen killer, and her body is found by her middle-aged son, Breeze block, who vows to find his mother’s killers

AWARDS : 

NOMINEE–Best Motion Picture–2023 Sitges -Catalonian International Film Festival

REVIEWS : 

“Knowing just how much to say aloud and how much to suggest through visual and aural means, this superb Irish fable feels at once modern and ancient, and hums with mystery and malice.”–Nick Schager, The Daily Beast 

“All You Need Is Death, craggy and rough-edged, may be in constant conversation with the distant past, but it also puts up signposts to the future”–Donald Clarke, Irish Times