For a long time I felt terrible about being around Ian Bailey’ – filmmaker Jim Sheridan on Sophie Toscan du Plantier documentary

Jim Sheridan has secured Ian Bailey’s help for his five-part documentary on Sophie Toscan du Plantier, writes Niamh Horan

Jim Sheridan at home in Ballsbridge. Photo by Steve Humphreys  

November 22 2020 02:30 AM

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Ian Bailey sits alone in his garden shed. His face looks haunted, his appearance dishevelled. He stares into a camera, takes a long sip of red wine and begins to talk.

“This is Ian Bailey interviewing Ian Bailey…” he says. “Hello Ian.”

The idea for the confessional-style diary was Jim Sheridan’s. Last year, the three-time-Oscar-nominated director gave Bailey a hand-held camera and encouraged the man arrested twice over the west Cork murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier to unburden himself. The results were better than Sheridan expected.

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