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  1. Jan 8, 2016 · Lenny Abrahamson has always been a bit of a clever clogs. Just ask him. It wasn't enough for him to go to university – he had to do theoretical physics at Trinity; it wasn't enough for him to ...

  2. Sep 22, 2018 · Lenny Abrahamson isn’t one to play by the expected set of rules. His last film, 2015’s Room, catapulted the Dublin-born filmmaker from the intimate indies of his early career to Hollywood’s ...

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  3. May 7, 2020 · Abrahamson remains the most original Irish filmmaker of his generation. Laced with lyrical beauty, his idiosyncratic wheelhouse is comparable to Joel and Ethan Coen’s. Abrahamson worked with Domhnall Gleeson on serio-comedy Frank (2014) and The Little Stranger (2018), and it was Abrahamson’s deeply moving Room (2015) that won Brie Larson her first Oscar.

  4. Feb 17, 2016 · Our film section editor, Vladimir Jean-Gilles, and film critic Mathieu Chin-Quee recently interviewed the Oscar and Canadian Screen Award nominated director of Room, Lenny Abrahamson. They talked about his directing techniques on Room, how he chooses projects and what’s next. Vladimir Jean-Gilles: So, Mr. Abrahamson, congratulations on the film. We really liked it. It’s Mathieu’s …

  5. Nov 25, 2020 · By contrast, Normal People ’s subtle, quiet approach to storytelling remains faithful to the stark prose of Sally Rooney’s book. This is perhaps unsurprising since Rooney had a large role in adapting the book into the 12 part series. This was an intense and lengthy process in which director and executive producer Lenny Abrahamson tells me ...

  6. First up is Irish director Lenny Abrahamson who, after studying philosophy at university, made his first short film, called 3 Joes [1991] before heading to the US to study for a PhD in philosophy. Six months later philosophy's loss was filmmaking's gain as Abrahamson returned to Ireland to take up filmmaking full time.

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  8. Jan 3, 2023 · “It kind of grew out of Normal People,” said Lenny Abrahamson about his new series Conversations with Friends. Both stories come from Irish author Sally Rooney. “It seemed very obvious having gone through the adaptation in episodic form. We learned how best to work with Sally’s material and we all felt like Conversations should be a ...