Like the late Alan Clarke’s remarkable television film Elephant, which depicted a series of senseless killings in Northern Ireland during the era of the so-called Troubles, director James Marsh’s Belfast-set drama shows sectarian murders being perpetrated in domestic suburban locations.
Andrea Riseborough excels in the lead role of Colette, a member of an IRA active service unit in 1993, who is arrested mid-mission by the British authorities in London. She is given a stark choice by Clive Owen’s MI5 officer Mac: either she returns to her mother (Brid Brennan) in West Belfast and secretly informs on the movements of her own IRA-combatant brothers (Aidan Gillen and Domhnall Gleeson), or she will be sent to an English jail, and thus separated from her young son.
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