Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast tells the story of a fictional nine-year-old version of himself during the Troubles in late 1960s Northern Ireland.
Today, he told Deadline’s Contenders Film: London event that he had long wanted to write something about the city, but was thinking “perhaps there was a story about my grandparents,” until the pandemic came around. “I started to feel as though in a way the first lockdown that I experienced was in Belfast when suddenly after this very violent change the street was sealed at either end by two barricades.
It essentially became a kind of fortress.”Continuing, Branagh added, “I suppose I wanted to get back in touch with my nine-year- old self and to try and understand what that family was going through,
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