Knuckle (Canadian)
Twelve years. Three clans. One war.
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 7, 2012
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Alliance Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Ian Palmer |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 8/10 --
A time machine of ancient tradition spotlighting bloody and violent bare-knuckle fighting that is as much legend as reality. Fascinating from start to finish.
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Monsters and Critics
The film boasts very lively characters and some brutal fight scenes...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/5 --
While it's frustrating that Mr. Palmer doesn't dig deep into the complexities of the fights, one of the movie's strengths is the honesty with which he confesses his doubts about them.
New York Times
Knuckle doesn't get as near to the heart of Traveller culture as it had the opportunity to. It's a golden opportunity, squandered.
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Kamera.co.uk
Rating: 7.5/10 --
A dark, brutal, black hole world of casual physical violence.
CraveOnline
Rating: B --
A deeply unsettling experience.
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indieWire
Rating: 3/5 --
While the film becomes slightly redundant, the anger and strife its characters cannot overcome is awful, poetic and, frankly, astonishing.
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
The Travellers are a band of Irish people linked by family and often living apart from the larger community. While the various clans of Travellers are traditionally united by blood or marriage, that doesn't mean they all get along, and filmmaker Ian Palmer explores one long-running feud and how it plays itself out in this documentary. The Quinn McDonagh family and the Joyce family are cousins, but they've also been fighting among themselves for generations, long enough that the basis of their anger is no longer clear in anyone's mind. The two families regularly attempt to settle their disagreements through brutal bare-knuckle boxing contests, in which few moves are forbidden and the strongest man wins. For years, that man has been James Quinn McDonagh, a gifted pugilist who can defeat nearly anyone, but after losing interest in fighting James leaves the job of defending his family's honor to someone else. That responsibility falls to his younger brother, Michael Quinn McDonagh, who wants a chance to prove himself after a humiliating loss to Big Joe Joyce several years before. Big Joe enjoys sending abusive messages to the Quinn McDonagh family, prompting more fights and perpetuating a cycle of violence that seems unlikely to end. Filmed over a period of twelve years, KNUCKLE was an official selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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- Sales Rank: 63,396
- UPC: 065935574972
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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