Belfast

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 97 mins

Rated: PG-13

Release Date: 2021

Countries: UK

Languages: English

DIRECTED BY:

Kenneth Branagh

WRITTEN BY:

Kenneth Branagh

CAST INCLUDES:

Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Ciarán Hinds, Jude Hill

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

In this semi-autobiographical tale, director Kenneth Branagh (THOR, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS) crafts a heartwarming and heartbreaking exploration of a working-class family in 1960s Belfast. With brilliant performances from a cast of Jude Hill (MAGPIE MURDERS, RIAN), Lewis McAskie (HERE BEFORE), and Caitriona Balfe (FORD V FERRARI, ESCAPE PLAN), “Belfast” is a stunningly immersive beauty of a film. The National Newspaper Publishers Association raves that “Belfast” is, “a major change of pace for the man who was once dubbed "the next Laurence Olivier," and easily the best thing he's done as a writer-director in decades."

SYNOPSIS

Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s. The cast stars Golden Globe nominee Caitriona Balfe, Academy Award® winner Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and introduces 10 year old Jude Hill. Dornan and Balfe play a passionate working-class couple caught up in the mayhem, with Dench and Hinds as sharp-witted grandparents.

Belfast

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 97 mins

Rated: PG-13

Release Date: 2021

Countries: UK

Languages: English

DIRECTED BY

Kenneth Branagh

WRITTEN BY

Kenneth Branagh

CAST INCLUDES

Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Ciarán Hinds, Jude Hill

ANGELIKA’S NOTE
SYNOPSIS

"[Belfast] is a major change of pace for the man who was once dubbed 'the next Laurence Olivier,' and easily the best thing he's done as a writer-director in decades."

Rolling Stone

"Branagh's remembrances may be idealized, but with "Belfast" he has written a charming, rose-tinted thank-you note to the city that sparked his dreams and the parents whose sacrifices helped them come true."

New York Times

"No wonder Kenneth Branagh's funny, touching and vital look at his own coming of age in turbulent Northern Ireland is the Oscar frontrunner for Best Picture. No movie this year cuts a clearer, truer path of the heart. It's his personal best."

ABC News