Branagh delves into childhood troubles with Oscar-tipped ‘Belfast’ | Malay Mail

— a love letter to the hometown he fled as a child — comes at a poignant time when peace remains fragile in Northern Ireland, the director said yesterday at the Toronto film festival.

“A story like this tries to see that even in the midst of extraordinary danger and chaos and violence, there’s still amazing qualities in that town,” the actor-director told AFP on the red carpet. “Bomb scares every weekend when you’re trying to meet your mates in town — that sort of stuff that became so sort of normal to us... now in hindsight is insane,” recalled star Jamie Dornan, who also drew on his childhood growing up in Belfast.“But people for the most part have lived harmoniously — for the most part — for 23 years now,” he added, saying Brexit now posed a threat to the fragile peace in place since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

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