Country: EIRE/GB/BEL
Technical: col/2.39:1 106m
Director: Chris Andrews
Cast: Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney, Nora-Jane Noone, Susan Lynch
Synopsis:
A long running feud between neighbouring farms resurfaces with the theft of a pair of rams.
Review:
Brutish pastoral drama, which spares the viewer little in the way of cruel detail. Structurally, the film passes over the same terrain twice, from different perspectives, in order at least to humanise the perceived antagonists. But the whole saga begins with a needless road accident at speed on the farm lane, and resumes because of intransigence on the part of the father, indeed arguably began because of him, making it very much a 'sins of the fathers' story. There are pleasing details, like the protagonist losing his sheep only because he goes back for the one stray, parable style, later repeated in the, perhaps unlikely, carrying of the Keoghan character down from the mountain. Others go unexplained, or are left as loose ends. One feels, in the final shot of Passover blood on the door post, that this particular tale is far from over.
Country: EIRE/GB/BEL
Technical: col/2.39:1 106m
Director: Chris Andrews
Cast: Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney, Nora-Jane Noone, Susan Lynch
Synopsis:
A long running feud between neighbouring farms resurfaces with the theft of a pair of rams.
Review:
Brutish pastoral drama, which spares the viewer little in the way of cruel detail. Structurally, the film passes over the same terrain twice, from different perspectives, in order at least to humanise the perceived antagonists. But the whole saga begins with a needless road accident at speed on the farm lane, and resumes because of intransigence on the part of the father, indeed arguably began because of him, making it very much a 'sins of the fathers' story. There are pleasing details, like the protagonist losing his sheep only because he goes back for the one stray, parable style, later repeated in the, perhaps unlikely, carrying of the Keoghan character down from the mountain. Others go unexplained, or are left as loose ends. One feels, in the final shot of Passover blood on the door post, that this particular tale is far from over.
