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Here Are the Young Men: Eoin Macken on How Acting Works into Directing
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Here Are the Young Men. Based on the
Robert Doyle novel of the same name, the film captures the raw, unabashed, and cynical view of youth. The story follows three high school grads who plan to celebrate their newfound freedom with an epic bender, but when a horrible accident sends them spiraling, each must grapple with the most daunting challenge of their lives: facing their own inner demons. I spoke to Macken about adopting Doyle s story to screen, his progression as a director, and how his background as an actor helped shooting the film.
under the skin of Eoin Macken’s debut feature.
Here Are The Young Men has been deftly (and expertly) translated into a multi-layered ethea of teenage existential angst by director Eoin Macken, with the story taken from Rob Doyle’s book of the same name. Macken is eminently sure of his craft and his handling of a sensitive subject is imbued with pathos and empathy.
The tale was originally composed with four main characters in mind: Matthew, Rez, Cocker, and Kearney but Macken juxtaposed the character of Matthew with that of Cocker to create a hybrid – He judged well because the trio of Matthew, Rez and Kearney is infinitely more stable as an emotional and visual metaphor.
Loretta Goff joins Dublin teenagers Matthew, Rez, and the deranged Kearney on their summer of freedom.
Here Are the Young Men, adapted from Rob Doyle’s novel of the same name by writer-director Eoin Macken, explores the different paths of three friends as they become “men” during their “summer of freedom” following their final year in school. The thoughtful Matthew (Dean-Charles Chapman), nihilistic Rez (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo), and aggressive Kearney (Finn Cole) start their summer off as they mean to go on, with plenty of drinking and drugs. After witnessing the tragic death of a young girl, however, their once seemingly carefree actions take darker and more drastic turns as they each struggle to come to terms with the incident and their own identities.