The art of Drinking, Smoking and Screwing is lost in America.  Fortunately for viewers of Fintan Connolly’s first feature, they are still perfecting the 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 Gabbler.  Suffocating in his future, Jack meets the mesmerising Isabelle (played by the hypnotic Isabelle Menke).   Suddenly being stoned is a tiresomely intricate maze for Jack...

 

 

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

 

 

-Shaz BENNETT

AFI FEST 2000 

Los Angeles