What Lenny Abrahamson did next

LENNY Abrahamson has directed three feature films: Adam & Paul, Garage and What Richard Did.

Despite being ‘arthouse’, each one has been more successful than the previous, and his latest film, Frank (due for release in Ireland later this year) has a star-studded cast and is mostly set in America.

In the editing suite of Frank, Abrahamson says he doesn’t know the secret of his success. He says cinema is a “dark art” and it’s difficult to know how best to get a film made and marketed: “I have been very fortunate, in that, with my three films so far, audiences have gone to see them… I have faith in audiences that they are much more open to freshness, and to ideas, and to intelligence, than people often give them credit for.”