It’s shot in luminous black and white, except for the color that lights up their lives when they’re at the cinema gasping at fur-bikini’d Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s flying auto. It evokes a time and place through a child’s eyes, and makes you feel part of the torn town and the unbreakable family. Not just a coming-of-age film, it’s an absorbing family portrait: Caitriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan are wonderful as his movie-star-beautiful parents, and Ciarán Hinds, 68, and Judi Dench, 86, still better as the warmly waggish grandparents they live with. Jude Hill is brilliant as a sensitive kid troubled by the Troubles, playing war with a wooden sword and a trash-can-lid shield as grownups battle for real. Not since John Boorman’s 1987 WWII masterpiece Hope and Glory has there been such an inspiring film about a director’s childhood in a war zone - in this case, Kenneth Branagh, now 60, growing up amid the 1969 Protestant-Catholic riots in Ireland.
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