“Belfast,” up for six awards at this year’s Oscars, is a kind of home movie writ large, Anthony Lane writes. “It is a private stash of memories and imaginings, which touches only glancingly on the wide and troubled world beyond.”
The camera clings to Buddy as it did to the grinning kid in “Cinema Paradiso” . Both of them are made to go to church, both worship at the altar of the movies, and both draw perilously near to the cute. Buddy is no less adorable in his moments of mischief—stealing a candy bar, at the urging of his cousin Frances , only to find that his haul is Turkish delight, which nobody likes. A later and graver transgression occurs in the middle of a riot.
What makes the scene is its immediate consequence: the righteous wrath of his mother, who collars her son, leads himDespite this flurry of panic, what Balfe lends to the maternal role is a kind of unrushed grace; she seems by turns luminous, vigilant, and stern. Fans of “” will recall her as a woman among brawling boys, and in “Belfast” her character is once again tasked with holding a family together.
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