The last film screened at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival (before it was halted following protests by filmmakers lead by Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut), the landmark documentary ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN is a stunningly e... more »vocative, "Beautiful, energetic, and uncompromising!" (New York Magazine) portrait of 1960s Ireland. Featuring the inspired cinematography of legendary French New Wave pioneer Raoul Coutard, and an incisive, literate voice-over commentary by the director Lennon (an Irish journalist then living in Paris), ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN captures an Ireland on the cusp of enormous social changes but still mired in a regressive, semi-theocratic mentality. The reaction to the film and it s history (as well as the tumultuous events in Cannes) are recounted in THE MAKING OF ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, also included on this DVD. This new film reunites Peter Lennon and Raoul Coutard.« less