‘Belfast’: Film Review | Telluride 2021

Kenneth BranaghMost of the story is told through Buddy’s eyes, and young Hill is a marvelous camera subject. Unfortunately, he also speaks in a thick Irish brogue that is not always easy for American ears to comprehend. Some of the other actors are equally difficult to understand. This is a movie that definitely would benefit from subtitles.

A larger problem in the film is that it simply does not provide enough background on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Some viewers may remember the history, but others probably need a bit of a refresher course. Branagh uses a few TV news excerpts to try to fill in the background, but they’re insufficient.

Despite these flaws, the main characters are so well drawn and beautifully played that we cannot help getting caught up in their daily struggles as well as the larger decision they face about whether to abandon their home for the uncertain prospect of new horizons. Moving will mean leaving the grandparents behind, and we feel their bond with the elder couple so intensely that the pathos intensifies.

The period is eloquently evoked by Branagh, cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos and production designer Jim Clay. The flashes of color in this black-and-white universe arrive when the family visits the local movie theater, first to see Raquel Welch wrestle with mastodons in. Even Dench’s character is drawn out of her seat when she watches Dick Van Dyke and family soar. The period score, mainly provided by Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, also helps to transport us back in time.

clairress And you want the actors to have an accent from where? New York?

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