The confounding Irish-set movie Wild Mountain Thyme available to watch from tomorrow
The film has received some unfavourable reviews, mostly for its questionable Irish accents. By Orla Dwyer Thursday 29 Apr 2021, 3:39 PM 6 hours ago 14,250 Views 24 Comments
Image: Lionsgate
Image: Lionsgate
FROM TOMORROW, PEOPLE in Ireland will be able to rent the film which raised eyebrows last year with its deeply questionable Irish accents in the trailer.
Wild Mountain Thyme will be released tomorrow to rent on all major digital retailers in Ireland and the UK, such as Amazon Prime Video, Google Play and Apple TV.
Its trailer was released last November to some criticisms of the tone and the Irish accents.
Director
John Patrick Shanley
Your cliché Bingo card will be a full house after the first twenty minutes
For a country that called the most destructive war in human history The Emergency and a centuries-long conflict in our own land The Troubles, it seems we have gotten our tweed knickers in an awful bunch over
Wild Mountain Thyme.
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How much of this is mock outrage, post-colonial cringing, or anger over cultural vandalism, I m still not sure but such has been the opprobrium heaped upon director and writer’s John Patrick Shanley’s clunking cliché fest that you’d think the Brits were reintroducing the Penal Laws or that the price of a pint was about to go up by 10c.
Jamie Dornan admits he has never read anything like Wild Mountain Thyme goss.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goss.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Dornan: They were just such unique, complicated, and really loveable characters who really needed each other for different reasons - and one of them could really see that and the other one couldn t.
Jamie Dornan has opened up about upcoming Irish rom-com Wild Mountain Thyme, saying it had this other-worldly quality to it.
Written and directed by Oscar-winning
Moonstruck writer John Patrick Shanley, the film is based on his play
Outside Mullingar, which ran on Broadway in 2014.
It stars Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan as Rosemary and Anthony, two star-crossed lovers in the west of Ireland who are destined to be together.