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Interview with Kirk Jones on "I Swear"

Interview with Kirk Jones on "I Swear"

Moviebreak Interviews und Festivals vor 6 Monaten

"It‘s a very human subject"

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It has been two decades since his charming feature debut Waking Ned
Devine became an international surprise success. Since then, Kirk
Jones has only directed a handful of films, the last one about ten
years ago. But I Swear was worth the wait. With empathy and
eccentric humor, the biopic of Scottish Tourette activist John
Davidson shows his difficult youth with the illness. Back in the
'80s where the story is set, Tourette's was little known and even
less understood. That this has changed is also thanks to Davidson,
with whom the director worked closely. When presenting his film in
Berlin, Jones found time for an interview with Lidanoir about
taking financial risks to realize his project, helping to create
Robert Aramayo's BAFTA-winning