How Being Uprooted as a Boy Inspired Kenneth Branagh to Write ‘Belfast’ (Video)
thewrap.comreview of the film from TIFF, TheWrap wrote, “Visually stunning, emotionally wrenching and gloriously human, “Belfast” takes one short period from Branagh’s life and finds in it a coming-of-age story, a portrait of a city fracturing in an instant and a profoundly moving lament for what’s been lost during decades of strife in his homeland of Northern Ireland.
Plus it’s funny as hell – because if anybody knows how to laugh in the face of tragedy, it’s the Irish.”During the early part of the lockdown in 2020, Branagh said he was finally compelled to write the script.“That sense of the abrupt and uncomfortable leaving of Belfast came swimming back to occupy my mind and spirit during the early part of the lockdown where an uncertainty and unpredictability about where all of our lives were going in an unvaccinated world,” he said.Branagh, whose script received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay added: “It suddenly after 50 years, couldn’t not be written, it had to come out.”“Belfast” is nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture.You can watch the full interview here..
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