A semi-autobiographical black-and-white film about a boy growing up in Belfast amid The Troubles tops the DVD releases for the week of March 1.
"Belfast": Sir Kenneth Branagh's memoir of growing up in Northern Ireland in the late '60s, starring Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Ciaran Hinds and newcomer Jude Hill as the young Buddy.
"Set in 1969, during the early years of The Troubles, Buddy’s hometown has become a battlefield, a war waged street to street and house to house, with car bombs and Molotov cocktails," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "Against this backdrop of civil war and conflict, life goes on. The family still loves and plays and parties and learns and laughs together, but the constant thrum of helicopters and armed military is ever present. Familial conflicts play out against this backdrop too, though they are inextricably connected with The Troubles."
