Breakfast on Pluto

Titolo originale: Breakfast on Pluto
Regia: Neil Jordan |
Anno: 2005
Origine: France | Ireland | United Kingdom |
Generi: Dramma Commedia
Tag: london, england | transvestism | transsexuality | loss of loved one | transvestite | 1970s | pregnancy | pastor | male homosexuality | ireland | lgbt | wonder | playful | sentimental | witty | amused | audacious | compassionate | exuberant | hopeful |
Cast: Cillian Murphy | Stephen Rea | Brendan Gleeson | Liam Neeson | Eva Birthistle | Ruth Negga | Laurence Kinlan | Bryan Ferry | Ruth McCabe | Morgan Jones | Mary Coughlan | Conor McEvoy | Charlene McKenna | Seamus Reilly | Peter Owens | Emmet Lawlor McHugh | Bianca O'Connor | Paraic Breathnach | Pat McCabe | Owen Roe | Rynagh O'Grady | Steven Blount | Keith McCoy | Liam Cunningham | Liam O'Toole | Peter Halpin | Peter Gowen | Mark Doherty | Gavin Friday | Tony Devlin | Kieran Lally | Stephen McDaid | Pete Reddy | Maurice Seezer | Lex Shrapnel | Eamonn Owens | Ciaran Nolan | Mary Ryan | Kathryn Pogson | Alan Moloney | Derek Elroy | Mal White | Paul O'Toole | Antonia Campbell-Hughes | Janet Moran | Andy Moore | Marc O'Shea | Rachel Donovan | Neil Jackson | Dominic Cooper | Alan Heyburn | Ian Hart | Steven Waddington | James Greene | Fiona Clarke | Gillian Johnson | Chris McHallem | Sid Young | Britta Smith | Doreen Keogh | Catherine Dunne | Tom Hickey | Mark Lambert |

Patrick Brady è nato dalla relazione clandestina tra un prete cattolico e la sua governante. Abbandonato dalla madre, fuggita a Londra, e affidato dal padre alla tabaccaia del paese, Patrick rivela sin da ragazzino una sensibilità spiccatamente femminile che si traduce in gesti appariscenti, in travestimenti e maquillage vivacissimi. Rinnegato dai genitori naturali e dalla madre adottiva, il ragazzo cresce con un gruppo di amici nell'Irlanda degli anni '70, occupata dagli inglesi e rivendicata dall'IRA. In seguito alla morte violenta di un amico, Patrick mutua il nome in Kitten e parte alla volta di Londra per conoscere sua madre. Alla fine del viaggio troverà invece un padre e una precisa quanto stravagante identità.

Approfondimenti

Patrick "Kitten" Brady's hometown is in County Cavan, which is on the border with Northern Ireland. [...] D
Charlene McKenna's debut. D
Reunites Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Ian Hart and Stephen Rea, all who appeared in Michael Collins [...] D
In the DVD commentary, director Neil Jordan says that when he came from Ireland to London in the 197 [...] D
While they don't have any scenes together, and his is more of a cameo, Ruth Negga and Dominic Cooper [...] D
Although she plays his mother in the film, Eva Birthistle is only two years older than Cillian Murph [...] D
Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson also appeared together in The Tale of Sweety Barrett (1998), 28 g [...] D
The title of the film and the novel it's based on is taken from the song "Breakfast on Pluto" by Don [...] D
In the same year that this film was released, Cillian Murphy and Liam Neeson played the villains of [...] D
Brendan Gleeson himself made up the dance for his character in the Wombles suit. D
The school master in whose class Patrick "Kitten" Braden is writing the essay about his conception a [...] D
Both Neil Jordan and Cillian Murphy described the filming location for the caravan in the quarry (a [...] D
The barman who shouts at John-Joe, after he smashes the glass, is the owner of the real bar where th [...] D
Cillian Murphy said it took a lot of work to get the high pitch of the Nancy Sinatra part of the son [...] D
Cillian Murphy and Liam Neeson also appeared in Batman Begins (2005), and The Dark Knight Rises (201 [...] D
Charlene McKenna is an Irish and Scotish descendant. D
The scenes where Patrick "Kitten" Braden goes to see his mother were filmed in Northern Ireland. Whi [...] D
One of the IRA men threatening to kill Patrick "Kitten" Braden, the one he/she calls Mr. Killing Man [...] D
Stephen Rea already played a man dating a trans woman - in the infamous La moglie del soldato (1992) [...] D