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| Saturday 20th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House |
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Boy A
John Crowley
England | 2007 | 100mins | 35mm | Colour
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Having been incarcerated as a child for committing a terrible crime, a young man sits down with a caseworker who will assign him with a new identity. They decided on Jack. With that, the caseworker settles Jack in Manchester, finding him an apartment and a job. Before he departs the young man is warned that he must never tell anyone the truth about his past.
Years spent in juvenile detention leave the world a bewildering place for the sensitive Jack but the barrier he has erected to protect himself in his new surroundings is breached when a workmate makes obvious her feelings for him. As he opens himself up to the possibility of love his rehabilitation seems to be well underway. However, when he commits an act of heroism it becomes a catalyst for the true nature of his past to be revealed.
Challenging reactionary assumptions about juvenile crime, the team behind the award-winning Intermission have crafted a sensitive and highly nuanced portrayal of the difficulty of applying an adult moral framework upon children.
As Faulkner so succinctly put it, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ The sentiment of this aphorism lies at the core of Boy A, a film that never allows its characters an easy way out. Each one of them has to wrestle with complex emotions and stories, and Crowley does a marvellous job balancing
the forces at play. – Toronto International Film Festival
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