THE DEEPEST BREATH: global Netflix hit

The Deepest Breath

Irish director Laura McGann has told RTÉ Entertainment that the reaction to her freediving documentary THE DEEPEST BREATH is “just incredible”, with the film currently the fifth most-watched movie on Netflix around the world. A word-of-mouth hit and also critically acclaimed, THE DEEPEST BREATH tells the story of the Irish expert safety diver Stephen Keenan and the Italian freediver Alessia Zecchini and their love for one of the most dangerous sports in the world, where devotees travel to the deep on a single breath.

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THE DEEPEST BREATH on Netflix

The Deepest Breath

THE DEEPEST BREATH, a visually captivating documentary by Irish director Laura McGann, is now available for streaming on Netflix. At the center of the film is Alessia Zecchini, a world champion freediver, whose unwavering passion for the sport drives her to explore breathtaking depths without fear of mortality. As she descends into the azure abyss, the audience is treated to awe-inspiring scenes that unfold in rhapsodic silence, conveying the sport’s elemental and primal essence.

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THE DEEPEST BREATH, which debuts on Netflix on July 19, tells the gripping, tragic story of two free divers, the world-record-holder Alessia Zecchini from Italy and her vigilant coach and safety expert, Stephen Keenan from Ireland. I won’t give away the nature of the tragedy, which took place in Dahab, Egypt, because McGann unspools it so suspensefully and movingly. But I will say that the documentary braids together many kinds of love: love between people, love of the ocean, love of excellence and adventure, love of original lives, love of tight-knit communities, and love of travel to places that are breathtaking, in both senses of the word.

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THE DEEPEST BREATH on Netflix

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Irish director Laura McGann’s latest film, THE DEEPEST BREATH, airs July 19 on Netflix. THE DEEPEST BREATH follows champion freediver Alessia Zecchini, who fell in love with the sport as a child growing up in Italy, astounding coaches with her raw talent and determination in pool swims and open water contests before she was even old enough to legally compete. The Deepest Breath will be released worldwide on Netflix on July 19, with limited theatrical release in Ireland from July 14.

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Irish movies to stream from home

The Guard

Scroll through Netflix and Amazon Prime no more. If you are looking for an incredible Irish film to watch, look no further. From war films to comedy dramas, we’re going to outline what we think are the best Irish movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime right now.

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QUEEN CHARLOTTE’S Irish producer

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How does one woman from Dublin go from watching the Sopranos on the couch with her dad as a child to producing QUEEN CHARLOTTE, one of the biggest titles to come out of Netflix so far this year? Well according to Anna O’Malley, it takes a lot of hard work and fighting through those moments when it feels like things have ground to a halt. 

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Charlie Murphy in OBSESSION

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Irish actress Charlie Murphy is set star in new Netflix drama OBSESSION. The four-part series is a contemporary adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novella, DAMAGE. The story centers around a dangerous love triangle that emerges when the enigmatic Anna Barton (played by Charlie) embarks on a passionate affair with her fiance’s father, William, a top surgeon. The tense, erotic thriller joins Netflix on April 13.

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Aidan O’Callaghan in THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN

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Ballincollig native Aidan O’Callaghan is set to play Kareg in the four-episode spin-off. The 34-year-old made his first on-screen debut in 2014 in KILL DAY, a post-apocalyptic TV series set in 2050’s Britain. But Aidan has been well acclaimed for his role in the English TV show EASTENDERS, where he played the antagonistic barman, Lewis Butler earlier this year.

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THE WONDER review

The Wonder

In the new film version of Emma Donoghue’s richly absorbing novel THE WONDER, we confront what the march of history and colonialism has done to Ireland. The film opens in 1862, ten years after the Great Hunger, in a windswept midlands village where a local girl called Anna O’Donnell is somehow hale and hearty after forty days of refusing food since her eleventh birthday. THE WONDER will is now available on Netflix via link below.

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Niamh Algar in THE WONDER

Niamh Algar is in good company, joining the likes of Florence Pugh, Ciarán Hinds and Toby Jones on this tragic yet compelling story set 13 years after the Great Famine. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Emma Donoghue (of Room fame), The Wonder is inspired by true stories of the 19-th century ‘fasting girls’ phenomenon and tells the tale of a young girl who claims to have gone months without eating – subsisting solely on manna from heaven.

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THE WONDER on Netflix Nov 16

THE WONDER, Netflix’s upcoming film which is set in the Irish Midlands in 1862, will be released on the streaming platform on November 16. The psychological thriller, which is an adaptation of the Emma Donoghue novel of the same name, with a cast that includes Florence Pugh, Ciarán Hinds, Niamh Algar, Brían F O’Byrne, Elaine Cassidy and her daughter, Kíla Lord Cassidy, has Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria) behind the lens.

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Charlie Murphy’s new Netflix role

Irish actress Charlie Murphy is set to star in a new show on Netflix which centres around a dangerous love triangle. The LOVE/HATE star will play the role of Anna Barton, who embarks on a secret affair with her soon to be father-in-law, William, played by Richard Armitage. The three-part series is an adaptation of the 1991 novella by the same name from late author Josephine Hart, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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STAY CLOSE on Netflix

STAY CLOSE is the most recent in a string of Harlan Coben adaptations on Netflix. It’s his third English-language series for the streaming service, following SAFE in 2018 and THE STRANGER in 2020. They’re always reliably popular for Netflix, and STAY CLOSE – starring Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, and Richard Armitage amongst others – is being positioned as its big drama for 2022.

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DEADLY CUTS now on Netflix

 

Released in Irish cinemas in October, this dark Irish comedy scored 91% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, with writer/director Rachel Carey winning the Discovery Award at the Dublin International Film Festival. Starring Pauline McLynn (FATHER TED) and Victoria Smurfit (ONCE UPON A TIME), it tells the story of a group of stylists at a Dublin hair salon who inadvertently become community heroes when they take on the members of a local gang.

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SACRED DEER now on Netflix

One of the best Irish movies ever made has just been added to Netflix. Released in 2017 and co-produced by Element Pictures and Screen Ireland, the psychological horror-thriller THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER reunited Colin Farrell with Yorgos Lanthimos, the director of The Lobster.

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