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‘Kneecap’ Review: Belfast’s Hip-Hop Upstarts Give The Establishment The Finger In Ireland’s Raucous Oscar Submission


‘Kneecap’ Review: Belfast's hip-hop upstarts give the establishment the Finger in Ireland's raucous Oscar submission

Soon after we are introduced to them, Liam is arrested at a club for dealing drugs and refuses to answer the police questions in English, claiming his right to speak Irish; they have to find a translator in the middle of the night. Rich Peppiatt, who previously has made videos for the band, captures the frenzied pace of all this by editing shots that often last a fraction of a second, cutting between microphone, hand, face, somebody else’s delirious expression, a white line. Recently, they went in hard when government minister Kemi Badenoch, who now is the leader of the Conservative Party, blocked a grant they had been allotted by an independent body charged with supporting music exports.

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