cREATURE OF GOD
Type: fish-family drama
Director: Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer. Starring Emily Watson, Paul Mescal, Declan Conlon, Toni O’Rourke, Aisling Franciosi, Marion O’Dwyer
Whom to obey? To family laws who demand unconditional support even from those who make mistakes or to the community with which you share every day and every choice of life?
Having to choose is an extraordinary one Emily Watson in the role of a mother who in an Irish fishing village is divided between work and domestic commitments. The day when, suddenly, his son Brain returns from Australiathe smile finally returns to the woman: for him she is willing to steal the cages that will allow him to grow oysters, for him she comes to give false testimony when he is accused of raping a childhood friend.
Paul Mescal and Emily Watson.
But is this absolute dedication right? How will the other women of the village with whom she shares her days at the factory react? And especially: Will Brian be able to appreciate his mother’s sacrifices?
The film by the two directors (Davis as a newcomer, Holmer in his second film) plays entirely on the portrait of this “mater dolore” comes to the inevitable breaking point under an eternally leaden skysurrounded by a sea that should be a source of life but is often also a source of death.
Forget the Fordian joy ofQuiet man: in this gloomy and dramatic Ireland there is hope – perhaps – only for those who flee.
For those who want to discover the most secret side of Ireland.
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