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The confounding Irish-set movie Wild Mountain Thyme available to watch from tomorrow
The film has received some unfavourable reviews, mostly for its questionable Irish accents. By Orla Dwyer Thursday 29 Apr 2021, 3:39 PM 6 hours ago 14,250 Views 24 Comments
Image: Lionsgate
Image: Lionsgate
FROM TOMORROW, PEOPLE in Ireland will be able to rent the film which raised eyebrows last year with its deeply questionable Irish accents in the trailer.
Wild Mountain Thyme will be released tomorrow to rent on all major digital retailers in Ireland and the UK, such as Amazon Prime Video, Google Play and Apple TV.
Its trailer was released last November to some criticisms of the tone and the Irish accents.
Taki in Your Name. Look at that sky!
After a brief introductory scene that will only make sense later, Makoto Shinkai s Your Name. starts like any good body swap movie between a boy and a girl: with jokes about body parts.
They re funny, but you ll feel like you know where this is going, and I think that s the point because you don t.
We first watch Tokyo boy Taki (Ryunosuke Kamiki) wake up in mountain town girl Mitsuha s (Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) body first, unaware of where he is or whose body he s inhabiting. He drops his bottoms in front of the mirror and screams. But then the camera cuts to black, and when we return to action, Mitsuha is herself again. At school, though, her friends ask her if she s OK she had been acting strange the day before, acting unlike herself. And the next day, it s Mitsuha who is waking up in Taki s body. She believes it to be a dream at first, but as it keeps happening and her friends continue to point out the irregularities in her