Traveller
Year: 1981
Genre: Drama
Studio:
Director: Joe Comerford
Cast: Judy Donovan, Davy Spillane, Alan Devlin
Crew: Neil Jordan (Writer), Davy Spillane (Music), Joe Comerford (Director)
Runtime: 81 minutes
Release: Sep 25, 1981
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Popularity: 1
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Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
_Traveller _follows an arranged marriage of fire and fisticuffs, with cross-border criminality for a honeymoon and emotional inarticulateness as a dowry, all in the shadow of past abuse and present Troubles. Despite familiar themes of familial violence, estrangement, and exile, Comerford produces a distinctly cinematic, Irish reelism, with voiceover and flashbacks, while moving towards the allegorical realism of his later work. To do so, he worked closely, as in _Down the Corner_, with a screenwriter (Neil Jordan), a marginalized community (Irish Travellers), important Irish cineastes (O’Sullivan and Black), and non-professional actors, particularly quiet-man/musician Davy Spillane and dubbed/bird-in-a-cage Traveller Jody Donovan.