Lolita Chakrabarti Guest ColumnistFor Variety‘s Writers on Writers, Lolita Chakrabarti pens a tribute to “Belfast” (screenplay by Kenneth Branagh).“Belfast” is about a relationship that is loving, difficult and full of yearning.
It is a love letter to a city and its disintegrating peace.Based on the childhood memories of writer-director Kenneth Branagh, this moving film provides a window into an Irish boy’s coming of age before he finally has to leave the city that defines him.
Sparingly written on the page, elegantly captured in black and white, the joy and confusion of growing up in a loving but fractured community is palpable.
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