The Shadow of Violence
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- Cosmo Jarvis
- Barry Keoghan
- Liam Carney
- David Wilmot
- Brian Doherty
- Ned Dennehy
- Simone Kirby
- Roisin O'Neill
- Toni O'Rourke
- Hazel Doupe
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Despite the claustrophobic entrapment in a violent and hyper-masculine world, The Shadow of Violence is an ultimately moving morality tale announcing a confident new voice in international cinema. Not to mention a powerful vehicle for its two leads, Jarvis and Barry Keoghan.
The movie tries to convince you that Douglas is better than his worst self and can transcend the dehumanizing degradations in which he’s mired. But not even the filmmakers seem convinced, which may explain why they embrace baroque brutality topped by a dollop of audience-mollifying sentimentality.
First-time feature director Nick Rowland makes the violence in-your-face and the scenes where Arm starts to struggle with it wrenching. Dude stages a mean Irish backroads car-chase, too.