Fintan Connolly
"[11] In 2005, Connolly made Trouble with Sex, starring Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon,[12] for which he received two Irish Film and Television Awards nominations.[24] Writing on the release of Connolly's debut film, Flick (2000), Ciaran Carty in the Sunday Tribune said "What's exciting about this new crop of directors is that they've broken away from the preoccupation with theory and ideology that for so long bedeviled Irish independent film-making.[25] Michael Dwyer, of the Irish Times, described Flick as "a lean, tightly coiled contemporary drama resourcefully achieved on a remarkably low budget".Written by Connolly himself, and developed with producer Fiona Bergin, the finished work has a genuinely "indie" feel and a strong sense of its makers' commitment to a vision".[27] The Sunday Times referred to the films Flick and Trouble with Sex as "Irish noir fiction", saying that "Fintan Connolly's movies [..] depict a thoroughly noir-looking Dublin full of moody shadows and drenched in blue light, but there is no corresponding heart of darkness in the plot".[29] Of Trouble with Sex, Yvonne Hogan in Irish Independent stated that "The ennui of single thirty somethings in the newly wealthy Ireland is a field ripe for cinematic interrogation and Connolly is to be commended for grappling with it".