The Civil War seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old child. © Universal
Kenneth Branagh errs on the side of candor
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Published on 02.03.2022
Belfast » Just weeks after the release of his highly colorful adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, Belfast-born actor-director Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet, Thor) is back on screens with a much more personal and melancholy. In very beautiful black and white, the filmmaker recounts the intimate questions of a Protestant child from a district of the Northern Irish capital in 1969. Through his young hero, he talks about himself and pays homage to all these citizens suddenly caught up in the civil war and forced to resist or go into exile. The filmmaker recounts a pivotal moment in his life, his friendships, his inner conflicts and his first cinematographic emotions with the will never to draw his feature film towards the tearful drama. The intentions are good. Nevertheless, by allowing himself to embellish the gravity of the situations because he chose to film his story through the eyes of a nine-year-old child,