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HERE BEFORE review

Reincarnation isn’t necessarily a scary prospect, but HERE BEFORE flirts with horror movie conventions as it establishes the relationship between Laura (Andrea Riseborough) and her new young neighbour, Megan (Niamh Dornan). Initially charmed by Megan’s offbeat personality when her family move in next door in a quiet suburban estate in Northern Ireland, Laura is shocked when Megan begins alluding to intimate details she couldn’t possibly know about Josie, Laura’s daughter, who died some years previously.

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THE SOUVENIR PT2 Review

Produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, THE SOUVENIR PT2 is director Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical drama, in which a young film-maker finds her creative path after a doomed love affair. In this flipside second instalment of Hogg’s most personal and surprisingly most accessible work, the word “souvenir” takes on a rather more metatextual meaning. This time the film itself becomes a kind of cinematic keepsake, a memory of a memory (or a dream of a dream?) set in the aftermath of Julie’s relationship with the heroin-addicted Anthony.

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NOTHING COMPARES Review

In NOTHING COMPARES, Kathryn Ferguson’s incisive and poignant documentary about the life and career of Sinéad O’Connor, we see the image that was chosen in 1987 for the cover of O’Connor’s first album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” made when she was 20 years old and pregnant: an extraordinary photograph of Sinéad in mid-scream. O’Connor has made seven albums since then and toured extensively, but in terms of the fame by which the pop stratosphere defines itself, Sinéad O’Connor was a fire that went out too fast. NOTHING COMPARES makes you see it’s still burning.

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