Eat the Peach

Eat the Peach is a 1986 BritishIrish comedy film, directed by Peter Ormrod. The title derives from the T.S.Eliot poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. It was written by Peter Ormrod with John Kelleher. It is a film about eccentricity and companionship and was part financed by Channel Four.

The film is based on actual events a true story of two brothersinlaw Connie Kiernan and Michael Donoghue living in Granard, County Longford Ireland. They build a wall of death in their back garden for fun. The director, Peter Ormrod, had seen a huge, wooden tank just off the road when he was looking for items for Irish television.The film was reviewed favourably by the eminent critic Pauline Kael in her collection Hooked. This film has wonderful uninsistent images. Its povertyrow film making, and often the shots dont match. But its the kind of movie in which you rather enjoy the shots not matching. It draws you into the moviemaking process the informality is likable. After little Vicky has watched her father flying around the tank he loves it, hes completely happy, she too, becomes obsessed, and theres a shot of her, her face as determined as his, as she rides her tricycle along the Wall, trying to climb it. She wakes up one night hearing the crackling sound of burning wood she rushes out the front door and sees her parents and her Uncle Arthur watching a fire, and she stares at the spectacle without a sound, the flames lighting her awed, startled face. For an instant, with her hair streaming back from her head, shes the soul of Ireland, the way Sara Allgood was when she played in Juno and the Paycock. ........

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