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1984, Movie, R, 102 mins

Cal: Review

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This bleak but beautiful love story, set amidst Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant conflict, follows the title character (Lynch), a confused, 19-year-old Catholic who is more interested in blues music than in joining the Irish Republican Army. He lives with his genteel, widowed father (McCann) in a quiet, Protestant neighborhood, where the boy meets Mirren, the widow of a policeman murdered a year earlier in an IRA bombing. Lynch and Mirren fall in love, but Lynch keeps a terrible secret from her regarding her husband's murder. Meanwhile, Lynch and his father are the victims of Protestant threats and must stay up nights to defend their home. CAL succeeds in painting a realistic picture of "the Troubles" because it avoids simplistic moralizing, presenting the motives of love and war as complex and contradictory, just as they are in life. Of his debut film, director O'Connor said, "What I would like is to allow people to see Northern Ireland for the tragedy it is, through the love affair in which these two people are trapped by what goes on around them." Mirren received much-deserved recognition for her role when she was named Best Actress at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. leave a comment
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