It is great to see Irish cinema going from strength to strength in recent years, getting more and more positive attention on the international film festival circuit., a new dark drama featuring some of the best of Ireland's young talent both in front of and behind the camera.
Set in the darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Arm has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm is asked to kill for the first time, and his attempt to do the right thing endangers everyone he holds dear.
The film also stars Barry Keoghan as Arm's tenuous best friend, who also happens to be the nephew of the leader of the Devers family gang, as well as Niamh Algar as Arm's ex-girlfriend, who takes care of their son and wants to move to another part of Ireland to have him placed in a special school. The movie had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend, and the early reviews have been gushingly positive for both Jarvis' broken-soul lead and Keoghan's live-wire supporting turns.
"Director Nick Rowland couldn't ask for a more magnetically tormented character to anchor his low-key-to-a-fault feature debut, [as Jarvis is] the kind of guy who seems like his sweat glands overcompensate because he's always holding back tears." -
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