Director: Lenny Abrahamson; writer: Mark O’Halloran; cinematography: Peter Robertson; editing: Isobel Stephenson; production design: Padraig O’Neill; costumes: Sonya Lennon; music: Stephen Rennicks; casting: Amy Rowan; producers: Ed Guiney; production company: Element Pictures, Film4. Irish Location: Co. Offaly, Galway e Tipperary
Cast: Pat Shortt, Conor Ryan, Anne Marie Duff, Don Wycherley, Andrew Bennett, Denis Conway, Tom Hickey, George Costigan, John Keogh.
Running time: 85’
SYNOPSIS
Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story of Josie’s hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his life changed forever.
DIRECTOR
Born in Dublin in 1966, Lenny Abrahamson graduated with first-class honours in philosophy from Trinity College Dublin in 1991. He directed his first short film, 3 Joes (1991) and numerous commercials for television before taking the helm on his first feature film, Adam & Paul, released in 2004. His second feature film, Garage (2007), won the CICAE Art and Essai Cinema Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Best Film prize at the Torino Film Festival. Films that followed were What Richard Did (2012), Frank (2014), Room (2015, Oscar for Lead Actress) and The Little Stranger (2018). For television, Lenny directed Prosperity (2007) and more recently Normal People (2020) and Conversation with Friends (2022).
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