#irish-cinema

#irish-cinema

A Christmas trip to the cinema is often an occasion that requires a bumper box of popcorn as you sit through the latest kids' movie, but this year's festive blockbuster is a little different. The long-awaited release of SAIPAN on St Stephen's Day will attract a very different audience, as the story that never appears to lose its appeal for all of Irish society is given the big screen treatment.

Dermot (Brenock O'Connor) and Elvis (Owen Colgan) are a couple of guys from Northern Ireland who run a record shop in Omagh, County Tyrone, dealing in old-school vinyl, but they are terrorised by their mean landlord, Sadie (Tara Lynne O'Neill), who owns the lease. They desperately need cash for rent arrears when Dermot discovers online that a farmer in Cork is offering what appear to be hugely valuable records by the blues legend Robert Johnson for just 30 not realising their real value.

The film explores O'Connor's early life and beginnings in the music industry, detailing how one young woman from Dublin took on the world.