Monday 23 July 2018

The Guard (2011 John Michael McDonagh & scr)

Brendan Gleason is utterly wonderful, e.g. in very subtle reaction to adjacent copper in Cheadle's briefing. Mark Strong too.

Great plotting e.g. Gleason's enthusiasm for drug smugglers with little home-made submarines, and the Olympic swimming. Also the appearances of the boy Mícháel Óg Lane and the significance of the cache of arms.

Gleason is watching The Shout at one point. Also swear there's a reference to Performance in the way a line is said and delivered (can't remember which one).

Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, Fionnula Flanagan, David Wilmot, Dominique McElligott (the taller prostitute), Sarah Greene, Rory Keenan, Katarina Cas.

Really fucking good. Funny spaghetti western music by Calexico. Shot in Panavision by Larry Smith, who shot Eyes Wide Shut after graduating from gaffer on Barry Lyndon and The Shining.


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