Southpaw

If ever an English-language film needed English subtitles it's this involving documentary about the young Irish boxer Francis Barrett. Barrett and many of filmmaker Liam McGrath's other interviewees have an interesting story to tell, but speak with such heavy brogues that crucial statements are incomprehensible to any but the most practiced — or Irish — ears. But the regional dialect that makes Barrett's story occasionally difficult to follow also gives it considerable flavor: Francis is a Traveller, a member of the small and often very poor itinerant ethnic group derisively referred to as "Irish Gypsies." Travellers share distinct social customs and spea...