FLICK European Showcase

The art of Drinking, Smoking and Screwing is lost in America. Fortunately, for viewers of Finton Connelly’s first feature, they are still perfecting this art in Dublin, Ireland.

A poetic rapture of energy and release, FLICK is the chronicle of Jack, a small-time hash dealer drifting through nocturnal Dublin. His best friend has a heroin problem, along with plans for that one big score. Jack, however, is bored. Middle class and well-educated- but essentially rootless-he’s a modern-day Hedda Gabler. Suffocating in his future, Jack meets the mesmerizing Isabelle (played by the hypnotic Isabelle Menke). Suddenly, being stoned is a tiresomely intricate maze for Jack….

Fueled by David Murray’s intoxicating performance and the resonantly echoing soundtrack, director/writer Connelly has created a haunting, intensely erotic film puncturing the surface of an individual adrift in the absence of compassion or support.