Ross Whitaker’s documentary is awash with phenomenal footage of the adrenaline junkies drawn to the craggy west coast of Ireland
I have to admit there is footage in this Irish surfing documentary that gave me a major attack of the collywobbles. One aerial shot of a wetsuit-clad doodle paddling out into an Atlantic wave as tall as a cliff had the same effect on my guts as a decent horror film.
Directed by Ross Whitaker, the film charts a year in the life of Lahinch, a surfers’ paradise town on the craggy coastline of County Clare. About a decade ago, big-wave surfers discovered the west coast of Ireland. Lahinch’s waves are particularly ferocious and bring out the poetic streak in surfers. “If you’re in the right spot it feels as still, as calm and as right as anything else,” murmurs one guy, lost in the memory.
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