Regarded by his neighbors as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the midwest of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story of Josie’s hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his little niche threatened and his life changed forever.
Winner of C.I.C.A.E. Award, granted by the art movie theatre circuit, at the Cannes Film Festival.
Garage
2007
16 years
85 min.
Fiction
Ireland
international festivals, awarded films, Ireland, solitude
Colorido
Lenny Abrahamson
Mark O’Halloran
Peter Robertson
Isobel Stephenson
Pat Shortt, Conor Ryan, Anne Marie Duff, Don Wycherley, Denis Conway, Tom Hickey, Andrew Bennett, Deirdre Donnelly
Ed Guiney
Element Pictures
Stephen Rennicks
Volta Pictures
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