Filmmaker Ian Palmer offers a fascinating glimpse at a stubbornly proud Irish sub-culture while simultaneously detailing the ways that a single act of violence can erupt into all out war in
Knuckle, a compelling and occasionally disturbing documentary shot over the course of 12 years and covering too many conflicts to count.
It all began in 1997, when Palmer was hired to shoot the wedding of 18-year-old Michael Quinn McDonagh. There, Palmer met Michael's brother James, who had been involved in three blood-feud fights against their cousins the Joyces, and who was now in training for his fourth. By some accounts, the bad blood between the Quinn McDonaghs...
Released:
2010
Rated:
R
Length:
92 mins