Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
Acting
Helen Mirren's wounded dignity, John Lynch's desperate hunger.
Direction
O'Connor captures Belfast's suffocating gray-blue despair.
Writing
MacLaverty's novel adapted with zero sentimentality.
Director
Pat O'Connor
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