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Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ is a Stirring Coming-of-Age Portrait with Magnificent Performances [Telluride Review]

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Directors mining their lives for a story is nothing new, but it’s always exciting to see that premise connect with viewers beyond its maker.

Such were the audience reactions to Kenneth Branagh’s stirring revisit to the Belfast of his childhood: there were sobs, gasps, and so much laughter.

Opening with a colorful travel ad-like introduction to today’s Belfast (Public art! Glorious old buildings!) Branagh moves into a black and white version of Belfast in 1969, when the life of a young 9-year-old boy named Buddy (Jude Hill) is disrupted by the Protestant violence targeting his Catholic neighbors.

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