AT THE MOVIES
Ireland is increasingly fashionable as both a source of story and a place to make movies. Two recent openings demonstrate contrasting use of its possibilities.
Waking Ned Devine (Fox Searchlight Pictures) bids for broad popularity by taking the easy way, seeing Irish villagers as happy-go-lucky rogues. English writer-director Kirk Jones has a good comic starting point: Two charming codgers, Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) and sidekick Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly), learn that one of Tulaigh Mohr's inhabitants has won the lottery, but they don't know who holds ...
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