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Glassland

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Ireland · 2015
1h 33m
Director Gerard Barrett
Starring Jack Reynor, Toni Collette, Will Poulter, Michael Smiley
Genre Drama

John, a young, dirt-poor taxi driver lives with his brother, Shane, who has Down syndrome, and his mother, who sees Shane as less than human and is steadily drinking herself to death. In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, John becomes entangled in Dublin’s criminal underworld.

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Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

As the determined but fragile son, Reynor has a strong presence, but Collette’s character is too thinly sketched to make much sense.

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The Guardian by Leslie Felperin

Like the emotional equivalent of a massage with a sandpaper loofah, the film leaves you feeling raw and tender, thanks particularly to the knockout performances from the small cast, especially Collette.

80

The Telegraph by Mike McCahill

It’s a film of few frills or flourishes, which never tries to dress up its subject or soften its blows. Yet in its rage and its pain, in the wire-brush scrub it gives to the movies’ woozily romantic notions of alcoholism, Glassland feels wholly honest and true.

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