Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer for an Irish rap movie titled Kneecap, and it looks like a lot of fun! The movie premiered at Sundance this year, and everyone who saw it seemed to love it.
The movie is based on the origin story of the Irish-language rap trio Kneecap, and the film stars the band’s original members Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí (also known as Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, JJ Ó Dochartaigh).
In the film, “When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other.
“Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue.
“But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries & politicians trying to silence their defiant sound – whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies.
“In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic KNEECAP play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.”
Michael Fassbender also stars in the film with Simone Kirby, Jessica Reynolds, Fionnuala Flaherty, and Josie Walker.
“There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio become unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.
“Bursting forth from an often unpredictable and raucous post-Troubles Belfast, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, JJ Ó Dochartaigh leap onto the screen to play themselves in this heightened & wildly entertaining tale of Kneecap’s origins, with Fassbender in tow as the charismatic father figure turned political martyr.
“Armed with a blend of English and native Irish verses and blazing, politically charged rhymes, Kneecap’s music takes us on a ketamine-fueled, rollicking trip to encounter the meaning of pure defiance.”
Kneecap is directed by Irish filmmaker Rich Peppiatt, making his first narrative feature and it won the Next Audience Award at Sundance.
The movie opens in theaters in the US in August!
