"Vincent believes he has written the great Irish novel. When publishers turn it down he decides to prove them wrong by turning it into a movie. The film culminates at the Venice film festival, where Vincent pitches George Clooney, Branagh, DeNiro & others what he now believes to be the great Irish film. The Book That Wrote Itself is an eccentric black comedy on the pretensions of art & filmmaking."
Direction
Meta-layered storytelling that blurs documentary and fiction.
Acting
O Mochain's committed performance as an utterly unhinged protagonist.
Director
Liam O Mochain
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film premiered at Cannes but Vincent's Venice invasion was real footage shot guerrilla-style.
A scathing time-capsule of late-90s Celtic Tiger Ireland's artistic pretensions before the crash.
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