The movie's director, Lorcan Finnegan, joined me recently, and I'll have him pick up the plot from there. LORCAN FINNEGAN: He, being a kind of father, feels that he's being disrespected by these guys.

Irish director Lorcan Finnegan – already behind “Vivarium” – returns to Cannes with “The Surfer.” Starring Nicolas Cage, it follows a man who just wants to surf on a beach next to his ...

Lorcan Finnegan: So, I'd say The Swimmer, and that's obviously an American movie. I'll give you another American one, Scorsese's After Hours, that was an inspiration for his costume, a little bit.

Lorcan Finnegan’s “Vivarium,” a fever dream about a suburban hellscape, offers a terrifying portrait of a young couple slowly unraveling under the crushing weight of social isolation.

“I’ve always loved fables and parables,” says Lorcan Finnegan. “Stories that entertain but carry a message or warning. I grew up on faery stories, ghost stories and reading Greek and Roman ...

Finnegan caused a stir on the genre circuit in 2016 with the […] “I’ve always loved fables and parables,” says Lorcan Finnegan. “Stories that entertain but carry a message or warning.

"The Surfer" is a revenge thriller starring Nicholas Cage. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to director Lorcan Finnegan about the story of an man trying to regain things he's lost.

"The Surfer" is a revenge thriller starring Nicholas Cage. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to director Lorcan Finnegan about the story of an man trying to regain things he's lost.