Sunday, 5 April 2015

'71 (2014 Yann Demange)

TV director (Top Boy, Criminal Justice) brings real energy to Gregory Burke's Belfast thriller, which could be in any war-torn city, and which echoes Carol Reed's Odd Man Out. Highlights are initial chase, sequence with super-confident boy, the moment he tenderly despatches his stalker, and the tense finale. Jack O'Connell's doing alright isn't he? Plus I thought I recognised Sean Harris.

Editor Chris Wyatt, camera Tat Radcliffe, music David Holmes.

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