We’re pleased to announce The Infidel is released in Ireland this weekend!

Here’s what The Irish Times say about it:

DONALD CLARKE, Friday, June 4, 2010

IT’S ALL about the clash of faiths these days. A few weeks back, we got Chiris Morris’s Four Lions , a murky comedy concerning Islamicist suicide bombers. Now well known clever-clogs David Baddiel offers us a farce concerning a London Muslim (Omid Djalili) who discovers he was born a Jew.

The comparison is illuminating. The Infidel , written by Baddiel and directed by Josh Appignanesi, is an altogether less edgy affair than Four Lions . The film features, in essence, the sort of identity-swap plot – minus the supernatural element – that drives so many Rob Schneider comedies. One minute Rob’s a surfer; the next he’s a fish. One minute Omid’s a Pakistani cab driver; the next he’s telling anecdotes at a noisy Bar mitzvah.

Yet, for all its crudity, The Infidel probably comes closer to achieving its humble aims than Four Lions (actually released after the Baddiel film in the UK) did in pulling-off its more ambitious, more transgressive objectives.

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