Brothers By Jim Sheridan

Brothers By Jim Sheridan is adaptation of a Danish film by the same name.

I don't know what to make of this film. Its equisitely made, the performances are all of the highest calibre, there is even a great U2 song used to poignant effect but some how I left the cinema feeling hollow.

The three leads are all there and emotionally honest but there was just something missing between their connections. The film belongs to the two young girls who play the daughters. Their scenes are harrowing and not like anything I have seen since In America another Jim Sheridan film. He seems to have a great knack of coaxing sublime performances from children. Nuanced, emotional but never trying to be the smart child in the room that so many child performances out of hollywood seem to succumb to.

But this doesn't make up for the fact that the ending does have the emotional punch that the film had had me geared up for. It sort of peters out.