After two postponed start dates, “Belfast” is finally coming to the cinemas. Luckily, because the story, projected onto screen through the eyes of nine-year-old Buddy, is worth seeing at the cinema. Also because the film itself celebrates cinema.
It can be amazingly easy to make major conflicts appear banal through the eyes of a child. However, the art of creating this illusion is anything but simple – looking at it is. The scene in “Belfast” is the conflict of the impending civil war in the Northern Irish capital of the same name. But if at all, then at most the…
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