Country: Ireland, Finland
Year: 2010
Duration: 90'


parked

Fred Daly lives in his car; he leads a quiet existence until one day a small yellow car parks next to his. Cathal, the owner of the yellow car, is an assiduous pot smoker and he urges Fred to make a change in his life. Fred finally listens to him and decorates his car like a true home. He meets Juliana, an attractive music teacher. But Fred has problems dealing serenely with this new relationship because he doesn’t dare tell Juliana where he lives. In the meantime, Cathal is becoming increasingly hooked on drugs.

 

“I needed to make this film. Parked emerged from a determination to look at the area of homelessness from a non-stereotypical perspective. A world where hopefully our assumptions are tested and our expectations challenged. Parked is very much about being stuck, unable to move forward or back, where often the answers are half coincidence and partially staring us in the face. It seems to me that only by investigating new lands will we ever learn and grow.”

Biography

film director

Darragh Byrne

Darragh Byrne (Ireland) has produced various documentaries for television, most of which for the production company Graph Films and for Rté, Ireland’s national television broadcaster. He has made primarily historical films and in 2006 he directed a documentary about the Irish civil war; the film was produced by Rté in collaboration with England’s Flame TV. Parked is his debut fiction feature film.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

JFK in the Island of Dreams (mm, doc., tv, 1994), Hallelujah Love & Stuff (mm, doc., tv, 1995), Missing (mm, doc., tv, 1997), The Bridge (mm, doc., tv, 2000), Borderlands: the Underworld (mm, doc., tv, 2003), Europe: Back from the Dead? (mm, doc., tv, 2006), 1916: The Man Who Lost Ireland (mm, doc., tv, 2006), Pope Benedict XVI: The Rise of Razinger (mm, doc., tv, 2006), The Irish Horse (mm, doc., tv, 2008), Parked (2010). 


Cast

& Credits

regia/director

Darragh Byrne

soggetto/story

Darragh Byrne, Ciaran Creagh

sceneggiatura/screenplay

Ciaran Creagh

fotografia/cinematography

John Conroy

montaggio/film editing

Guy Montgomery

scenografia/production design

Owen Power

costumi/costume design

Susan Scott  

musica/music

Niall Byrne

suono/sound

Kirka Sainio

interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters

Colm Meaney (Fred Daly), Colin Morgan (Cathal O’Regan), Milka Ahlroth (Juliana), Stuart Graham (George O’Regan), Michael McElhatton (Frank), David Wilmot (Peter), Tatiana Ouliankina (l’istruttrice di acqua gym/Aqua Aerobics Instructor)

produttori/producers

Jacqueline Kerrin, Dominic Wright

produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales

Ripple World Pictures

coproduttore/coproducer

Aleksi Bardy

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