A saxophonist hunts a killer by their orthopedic shoes. Neil Jordan's fever dream of grief.
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader. So begins his quest to avenge her.
Direction
Jordan's debut: poetic grime, Dublin as dreamscape
Score
Saxophone as wounded animal, diegetic and devastating
Writing
Sparse dialogue, symbolic shoes, mythic revenge structure
Director
Neil Jordan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 24 days for £250,000; Stephen Rea and Jordan met here, beginning decades of collaboration.
Rare 1980s Irish cinema not about Troubles — instead, urban decay and artistic desperation. Critics dismissed it; it's been partially reclaimed as precursor to Jordan's later fairy-tale violence.
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