Adam and Paul

Adam and Paul is a 2004 Irish film centred around a day in the life of two Dublin drug addicts, Adam and Paul. Adam is the taller and slightly smarter of the two while Paul is his sidekick. It follows the two in a "day in the life" set up as they wander around Dublin trying to score heroin. Adam and Paul are childhood friends who as adults have withered into two hopeless, desperate addicts, tied together by habit and necessity. The film is a stylised, downbeat comedy, following the pair through a single day, which, like every other, is devoted to scrounging and robbing money to buy heroin. Stylistically, Adam and Paul is a cold, contemporary take on classic, physical comedy. At heart it is a minimal, Beckettesque fairytale about two...