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‘We’d drive towards thunder and lightning’: How one boy’s capers with his dad led to a stunning film
Two for the Road, a nostalgic and moving movie based on its director’s weekend trips with his father, has been longlisted for the Oscars
Watching Irish short film Two for the Road feels like rifling through a dusty drawer of old grainy photos from a long-forgotten road trip. Press pause during any of the Oscar long-listed film’s beautifully shot 18 minutes and you could be looking at a family snap taken on a journey across rural Ireland in the 1990s. Specifically, a McKenna family photo.
The film is based on writer-director Lochlainn McKenna’s weekend adventures with his father; a ...
