All Good Children, Alicia Duffy’s feature debut has received positive reviews from critics after its World Premiere in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Realisateurs) at Cannes. Click on the links to read the full reviews

Jack Gleeson receives high praise for his portrayal of Dara from Variety magazine; “Thesping is strong, particularly by the youngsters, but Gleeson, with his massive blue eyes and anxious, ever-hopeful expression, is the pic’s big discovery”

Screen comments that Alicia Duffy “has crafted a delicately atmospheric film, that while relatively straightforward in structure, tackles complex emotions.”

The Guardian notes that “Duffy’s movie has the trance-like evocation of mood and detail to be found in the work of Lynne Ramsay and Duane Hopkins; it is a parable for the emotional discrepancy between male and female adolescence, for the loneliness of boyhood and perhaps, at a deeper level, the combustible proximity of Ireland and England.”

All Good Children will be released in Irish Cinemas in 2010 by Element Pictures Distribution

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