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Waterford Film For All presents King Frankie (2024)

Tue 18th Mar
7:30pm
Garter Lane Arts Centre
€9 (€7.50 Concessions)
15A
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King Frankie is drama from 2024 and is the debut feature film by Irish writer and director Dermot Malone

During the Celtic Tiger years, Frankie was a successful, wealthy and ostentatious businessman. After losing almost everything in the economic collapse, he now lives a quiet life operating a small taxi firm and has had to move back into his parents’ home. When Frankie’s father passes away, old friends and acquaintances gather for the funeral. Seeing those familiar faces forces Frankie to finally reckon with the lingering trauma of the day everything fell apart.

Dermot Malone’s debut feature is a probing yet warm character study split between two strikingly different moments in its protagonist’s life.
Love/Hate star Peter Coonan excels as the troubled yet sympathetic Frankie, alongside a talented supporting cast that includes Owen Roe, Olivia Caffrey and Ruairi O’Connor.

Festivals
Dublin International Film Festival 2024
Galway Film Fleadh 2024

Reviews
“A nervy, tension-fuelled melodrama with big themes and a bigger heart… [Coonan is] terrific here”
Chris Wasser, The Irish Independent

“Malone shows a sure touch with his actors. Coonan makes Frankie a sympathetic figure; all flashing teeth, simmering rage and desperation in the past, he becomes a much more humble figure with age”
Allan Hunter, Screen Daily

Tue 18th Mar
7:30pm
Garter Lane Arts Centre
€9 (€7.50 Concessions)
15A
Buy Tickets