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Article: The Snapper.
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- March 25, 1994
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1994 Commonweal Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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If you're looking for a perfect example of a comedy that deals with self-deception without being minted by it, check out The Snapper. This is an adaptation of the second installment of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy, a comic epic of life as it' s lived in the streets and overcrowded houses of northern Dublin. The first novel, The Commitments, has already been unforgettably filmed by Alan Parker, but The Snapper isn't far behind as directed by the impressively versatile Stephen Frears from Doyle's own script. In Frears's work, there has always been a mixture of grit and quicksilver. You can almost smell the rooms his characters live in, yet the spring-heeled editing always ...
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