
Set in Dublin, 'Glassland' tells the story of a young taxi driver who gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from drug addiction.... (Full plot summary below)
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Set in Dublin, 'Glassland' tells the story of a young taxi driver who gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from drug addiction.
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| Film Ireland MagazineAnthony AssadThis really is Irish cinema at its best, a truly transcendent and palpable experience shedding glorious light on an issue all too relevant from a bold and emphatic director at the top of his game. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedBring plenty of Kleenex. A nickel pack won’t do. |
| The PlaylistOktay Ege KozakCollette delivers one of the best performances of her already impressive career in Glassland. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA moving drama that reveals the struggles of a compassionate caregiver at the end of his rope. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzThis intimate Irish drama travels a road that'll be familiar to anyone who's ever seen a film about addiction, or known an addict, but the fact that all stories of addiction are essentially the same doesn't blunt its impact. |
| Screen InternationalFionnuala HalliganGlassland is impressive, although Barrett struggles to give this carefully crafted narrative a coherent resolution. |
| Village VoiceAbby GarnettBarrett faces the daunting task of trying to contain Collette's tumultuous performance, and he struggles to make Reynor's more restrained turn work in the same space. The film trudges along in Collette's wake, fumbling for something to focus on apart from the bleeding wound just offscreen. |
| AV ClubMike D'AngeloThe script is consistently either overexplicit or undernourished, and there’s only so much two fine actors can do. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Mike McCahillIt’s a film of few frills or flourishes, which never tries to dress up its subject or soften its blows. Yet in its rage and its pain, in the wire-brush scrub it gives to the movies’ woozily romantic notions of alcoholism, Glassland feels wholly honest and true. |
| Irish TimesDonald ClarkeThrough coiled tension, hooded frustration and, eventually, voluble remonstrating, he gets across a terrible truth about addiction. |