Float Like a Butterfly

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Float Like a Butterfly

2018

1h 41m

Drama

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Francis loves to box and is determined to make her ex-convict father proud, but she soon comes to realize he's got other plans for her.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

An impressively passionate recreation of a now-distant era. Above all it is a triumph for Doupe, who scraps and bawls and triumphs like a star from the golden age.

Nov 5, 2018

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

A gloriously unruly collision of vivid romanticism and tough, unsentimental truths about the hardscrabble lives and casual discrimination faced by Irish travellers.

Oct 9, 2018

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Todd McCarthy

The Hollywood Reporter

Strongly evokes a rural world stuck mid-way between restrictive age-old traditions and budding modern tendencies.

Sep 19, 2018

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Calum Cooper

Source (Scotland)

The murky cinematography adds to the prejudiced world the characters occupy, while bright colours offer specs of hope, and the classical Irish soundtrack celebrates both uniqueness and ancestry.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 14, 2024

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Andrew Kendall

Stabroek News

It is a thoughtful assessment of gender relations, coming of age and a search for identity.

May 21, 2019

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Roe McDermott

Hot Press

Touching on themes of classism, racism and sexism, Float Like A Butterfly shows the multiple, interconnecting ways that bigotry can box people in, leaving them no choice but to fight their way out.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 10, 2019

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Joe F

Very well written and acted about issues that are still problems from times that have changed but we still have a ways to go.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/21/23

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Audience Member

Not much. Serious melodrama from the start mucks it up. There's the cliched Irish/gypsy singing bits, hard drinkin' and gettin' the 'move on' from the 'boyoes'. Hazel Doupe is fine, but that Irish wannbe Justin Theroux & the rest of 'em are sad. Corny, cliched melodrama.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Francis loves to box and is determined to make her ex-convict father proud, but she soon comes to realize he's got other plans for her.

Director: Carmel Winters
Producer: David Collins, Martina Niland
Screenwriter: Carmel Winters
Production Co: Samson Films, Port Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 14, 2020
Runtime: 1h 41m

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