{"id":129006,"date":"2025-11-08T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129006\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:18:11","slug":"home-is-a-feeling-in-new-irish-film-abode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129006\/","title":{"rendered":"Home is a feeling in new Irish film Abode"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the week in which we were told that Ireland’s housing crisis is likely to persist for at least another 15 years<\/a>, comes an Irish anthology film about the concept of home. Here, you get five different stories from writer-director Liam O Mochain, all featuring familiar faces.<\/p>\n

In the first, a restaurant owner (Liam O Mochain) and a homeless woman (Marion O’Dwyer) cross paths at Christmas.<\/p>\n

\"Marion
\nCarol (Marion O’Dwyer) is presented with an opportunity to share the spirit of Christmas<\/p>\n

Love, it seems, is in the air in the second as a shopkeeper (Mary McEvoy) is pursued by a dapper customer (Brendan Conroy).<\/p>\n

\"Kitchen
\nPeggy (Mary McEvoy) listens as Red (Brendan Conroy) turns on the charm<\/p>\n

The third story, which ties for the best, sees a woman (Rose Henderson) all het up about a big event.<\/p>\n

\"Donncha
\nFrank (Donncha Crowley) tries to keep Molly (Rose Henderson) calm on her big day<\/p>\n

In the quirky fourth, a hot-under-the-collar couple (Gail Brady and Matthew O’Brien) buy a cooker that seems to have a life of its own.<\/p>\n

\"Gail
\nSkyler (Gail Brady) and Sam (Matthew O’Brien) get the hard sell from salesman Bill (Jed Murray)<\/p>\n

The fifth and final fly-on-the-wall closes the film powerfully as a mother and father (Mary Murray and Stephen Jones) try to get away from it all on a hotel break.<\/p>\n

\"Mary
\nMaria (Mary Murray) and Conor (Stephen Jones) wonder what’s coming next<\/p>\n

Abode has its share of surprises and good performances throughout. There is more meat on the bones of some of the vignettes than others – and a bit too much music at times – but the pace ensures that the film as a whole doesn’t outstay its welcome.<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes, there’s no doubt that money was tight. It’s commendable that what’s on screen looks so well. In selected cinemas nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the week in which we were told that Ireland’s housing crisis is likely to persist for at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-129006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}