A Film With Me In It (2008) - TIFF’08
A Film With Me In It (2008, Ian Fitzgibbon) is an Irish film that is very, very dark and very, very funny. I loved it. It stars Mark Doherty and Dylan Moran as two kinda losers. Mark (Doherty) is an unsuccessful actor who lives with an unhappy girlfriend as well as a paralyzed brother. Pierce, his friend, is a “screenwriter” who attends AA meetings and is quite brilliant at not admitting that he is an alcoholic.
Doherty wrote this thing and Moran must have been in his mind as he did so. I’m a huge fan of Black Books and was pretty stoked for the opportunity to see him more in his element than as the sidekick in Run Fat Boy, Run.
The film was funny, dark, ridiculous but totally believable. At least that’s how they played it out, and it totally works. I love it when I feel terrible for laughing at something! I hope this film gets picked up for North American distribution. In the Q&A, the director says that he was inspired by Withnail & I, Shallow Grave and A Fish Called Wanda. It was shot in 20 days in Dublin, Ireland.
Below is a clip from the Q&A of Doherty, Moran and Fitzgibbon discussing some of the improvisation that occured while filming. Apologies for missing the first few seconds.
This was screening 3/26.
