Ari Frankel's Reel

The drama AN IRISH ERRAND is a very contained, intimate feature. It opens in Paris, in winter, after avant-garde writer Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot premieres, changing world literature. People are talking about the play, Beckett’s publisher secures him a super important London theater commission, his name is “getting out there”. But then, he is paralyzed: stomach constipated, intestines in pain, writing blocked, his unhappy wife grows increasingly unhappy, and he is drinking way...