The IFTA-nominated documentary Men at Lunch (Lón Sa Spéir), which tells the story of one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, and explores its links to a Galway village, opens in cinemas next month.
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper was taken in 1932 and shows workers on their break on a girder 850ft above Manhattan during the building of the Rockefeller Centre.
In 2007, brothers Eamonn and Sean Ó Cualáin came upon a special framed copy of the photograph in Whelan’s pub in the Galway village of Shanaglish and began their fascinating investigation into two local men who had emigrated from the village in the 1920s.
Watch the trailer here.
Narrated by actress Fionnula Flanagan, Lón Sa Spéir has already been screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, the Toronto Film Festival and the DOC NYC festival and will go on release in selected cinemas on Friday February 1.
The film, in Irish and English language versions, will be screened at:
Irish Film Institute, Dublin
Movies @ Swords, Dublin
Movies @ Dundrum, Dublin
Omniplex, Dublin
Screen Cinema, Dublin
Omniplex Wexford
Omniplex Galway
MovieWorld, Gorey, Co Wexford
MovieWorld, Castlebar, Co Mayo
