71 (2014)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Yann Demange
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Sean Harris, Sam Reid
Synopsis:
Joining up to care for his orphaned kid brother, a young recruit undergoes training and finds himself posted to Belfast on the cusp of the troubles. There he is involved in a flashpoint during a routine house search that separates him from his unit, and he witnesses the internecine treachery that clouds the Protestant-Catholic divide, besides permeating the ranks of the secret police.
Review:
Demange constructs this wry political thriller like a genre piece à la A bout portant, and the tension never lets up. O'Connell, in an almost wordless performance, is excellent as the disoriented squaddie, barely more articulate than his paddy antagonists, and the mise-en-scène conjures atmospheric shots of the city by night. The other film evoked is, of course, Odd Man Out, and Demange ends on a similarly defiant, though more upbeat, note.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Yann Demange
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Sean Harris, Sam Reid
Synopsis:
Joining up to care for his orphaned kid brother, a young recruit undergoes training and finds himself posted to Belfast on the cusp of the troubles. There he is involved in a flashpoint during a routine house search that separates him from his unit, and he witnesses the internecine treachery that clouds the Protestant-Catholic divide, besides permeating the ranks of the secret police.
Review:
Demange constructs this wry political thriller like a genre piece à la A bout portant, and the tension never lets up. O'Connell, in an almost wordless performance, is excellent as the disoriented squaddie, barely more articulate than his paddy antagonists, and the mise-en-scène conjures atmospheric shots of the city by night. The other film evoked is, of course, Odd Man Out, and Demange ends on a similarly defiant, though more upbeat, note.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Yann Demange
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Sean Harris, Sam Reid
Synopsis:
Joining up to care for his orphaned kid brother, a young recruit undergoes training and finds himself posted to Belfast on the cusp of the troubles. There he is involved in a flashpoint during a routine house search that separates him from his unit, and he witnesses the internecine treachery that clouds the Protestant-Catholic divide, besides permeating the ranks of the secret police.
Review:
Demange constructs this wry political thriller like a genre piece à la A bout portant, and the tension never lets up. O'Connell, in an almost wordless performance, is excellent as the disoriented squaddie, barely more articulate than his paddy antagonists, and the mise-en-scène conjures atmospheric shots of the city by night. The other film evoked is, of course, Odd Man Out, and Demange ends on a similarly defiant, though more upbeat, note.