Kneecap

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Kneecap
2 min reading

Irish Oscar nominee and Sundance Audience Award winner. A crazy comedy about housing estate boys who overdose on their native language. Director Rich Peppiatt skillfully mixes facts with pure fiction like the best DJ, and the real rappers, playing themselves, are accompanied on screen by Michael Fassbender. Histories are made of language, nations are made of stories. This is our story – meet Kneecap, a hip-hop trio from Northern Ireland. Liam and Naoise always find a way to have fun in English-occupied Belfast, sell drugs, mock the enemy or run around with the overzealous police. And on top of that, they rap in Irish, on an island where more people even know... Polish. When JJ, a failed music teacher, unexpectedly joins them, Irish hip-hop becomes an expression of political protest for the three. This is how a phenomenon film was created, heating up cinema halls like club dance floors. The fight for linguistic national identity is combined here with a drug high, and a good party with a real mission. This film energy bomb is a tribute to musical and cinematic rebels. "Trainspotting" meets "8 Mile", "Snatch" makes fun of "Hunger", and Fassbender - himself. "Kneecap: Hip-Hop Revolution" should be served for breakfast instead of coffee!