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    • Lorcan Finnegan on His and Garret Shanley's Filmmaking Process
    • Nocebo Unites Ireland and The Philippines
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    • Finnegan and Nocebo Show Fashion as A Post-Colonial Nightmare

    Nocebois named after the medical term for the inverse of the placebo effect and occurs when people's negative expectations and thoughts about something manifest as adverse physical side effects. When researching it, Finnegan and Shanley discovered its relationship with shamanism and the power of suggestion. "Garrett and I met like years and years a...

    Nocebodoes a fascinating, unnerving job at connecting the dots between mental health and the colonialist overthrow of less pharmaceutical cultures. In some ways, late capitalism is a placebo we all take — we're promised and conditioned to believe that it's good for our health, despite the suffering and income inequality around us. "You can't make a...

    Nocebo is not the first Irish film this year to incorporate older folklore into its horror, with Finnegan's film joining the great thriller Here Before with Andrea Riseborough and Kate Dolan's You Are Not My Motherin 2022. Ireland, like the Philippines and other states, seem to be looking back to a time before capital, colonialism, and conquering. ...

    Noceboexamines these pre-colonial aspects of cultures but is also prescient about a globalized world in which national identity gets erased altogether, where the countries in power now invisibly colonize through economics. "There's this neo-colonial thing going on, where countries outsource everything, so they're still the masters but have all thei...

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  2. Lorcan Finnegan explores capitalism once again in his new film, ‘Nocebo,’ but frames his discussion through the wealth divide between the rich and the poor. Featuring Eva Green & Mark Strong, the film follows a fashion designer (Green) who suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong).

  3. Nov 6, 2022 · Lorcan Finnegan: Well, we knew we wanted the antagonist in the film to an exploitative person, so I mean, that was an element that we could see the connection, already, between exploitation, and colonialism, which then turned into this capitalism and neo-colonial exploitation.

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  4. Lorcan Finnegan's follow-up to 'Vivarium' is another journey of horrors through late-stage capitalism. Brian Lloyd. 1 year ago. Nocebo. Director: Lorcan Finnegan. Actors: Eva Green, Mark...

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  5. Dec 8, 2022 · Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan returns with this dark and understated horror thriller, which stars Bond alum Eva Green, prolific British actor Mark Strong and award-winning Filipino actor Chai...

  6. Nov 3, 2022 · RUE MORGUE spoke with director Lorcan Finnegan about his combination of real-world concerns and folk unease. Arriving in theaters tomorrow and debuting on VOD November 22 from RLJE Films and Shudder, NOCEBO is the latest collaboration between Finnegan and scriptwriter Garret Shanley, who previously made the accomplished chillers WITHOUT NAME ...

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