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Director
Kenneth Branagh
Credits
Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas.
Cinemtographer:Haris Zambarloukos
Principal Cast
Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds. Ciarán Hinds
Category
Feature
Kenneth Branagh’s cinematic paean to the city of his birth is a bittersweet, but irresistibly charming, child’s-eye view of growing up at a time when the tension and violence of the Troubles were beginning to exert an increasing hold over everyday life in Northern Ireland. Nine-year-old Buddy (a winning turn from newcomer Buddy Hill) is the youngest of a Protestant family living in a mixed community in north Belfast. Ma (Caitriona Balfe) is the family linchpin while Pa (Jamie Dornan) both supports them and pays off debt by working in England, and grandparents Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds occupy a central role in the boy’s life. As sides become entrenched, the family is drawn into situations against its will, forcing difficult decisions. Like Alfonso Cuarón’s similarly luminous Roma (2018), this is a moving love letter to a particular time and place. Notes by Kevin Coyne Awards: see IMDB Placed no. 30 in the Irish Times's Top 50 Films of 2022.
98 minutes, UK, 2021, Black and White
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (PROGRAMME 2) 12.50
CROSSING 15.20, 20.55
HEART OF AN OAK 18:00
LA CHIMERA 20.30
SHAYDA 13.00 (OC), 18.00
SLEEP 13.15
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 18.30
THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW 13.40
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 16.00
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