Intermission is an urban love story about people adrift and their convoluted journeys in the search for some kind of love. A misguided break-up between two young lovers initiate’s a series of events affecting everyone around them with cataclysmic results. All the characters are blissfully unaware of the accidental nature of life and the way in which their lives intersect. The hapless lover and his best mate, the sex-starved singleton; the maverick detective and a ruthless petty thief; the pretty girl on the rebound with an older married man; the deserted wife on the brink of breakdown; the ambitious TV producer; the robbed and the abandoned fiancé and a nine year old tearaway all find their lives interweaving in this hilarious story of modern romance with a biter twist.People get blinding glimpses into the real nature of their lives and can see they’ve been stuck in a rut for years, just going through the motions. Sometimes they see with equal clarity that they are free to take charge and sometimes it’s just too late.
Kilbarrack Shopping Centre
Intermission as a film constantly has the viewer on edge as to what is going to happen next, As the lives of each character unveils. The opening scene with Collin Farrell is set Kilbarrack Shopping Centre. ( Which has gone through a lot of changes since this film was released) Its located on the east side of Grange Park Avenue just off the Raheny Road. Both Raheny and Kilbarrack Dart Station are in close proximity. Raheny road is a busy thoroughfare between the Tonlegee Road and Howth Road.
Kilbarrack is an old district, whose name can be found on maps and sea charts, many held at Dublin City Archive, going back several hundred years. It was historically a large area of fields, many being 'grange' lands held by Dublin church establishments, with small settlements. Over time, two hamlets emerged, Kilbarrack proper, near the seafront, close to the still-extant Kilbarrack Church and Graveyard complex , and Little Kilbarrack, on the road inland (now Tonlegee Road).
The district is crossed by one of Dublin's small waterways, the Kilbarrack Stream or Donough Water, which enters the sea in two branches.
The site of Kilbarrack hamlet, and the part of the district bounding Sutton and Baldoyle, are now together known as Bayside (from inside Kilbarrack Road to Baldoyle Road), while today's Kilbarrack, and the Greendale shopping and civic complex, are close to where Little Kilbarrack stood. The Tesco-led shopping centre is near the site of the former "big house" of the area, Kilbarrack House.
In the 1970s, Swans Nest Court, a complex of tower blocks of flats was built by Dublin Corporation. It was demolished and redeveloped into social and affordable housing in the early 2000s after it fell into disrepair.
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