Graham Earley), an ex-convict, and David Connolly (
Tristan Heanue), a highly respected police officer.
Broken Law will be released on Netflix in the UK and Ireland tomorrow, 13 January.
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Cineuropa: When did you start working on
Broken Law
?
Paddy Slattery: The first draft was written at the end of 2009. It was vastly different from what we see today. I basically wrote a draft of the script that was very much like Paul Thomas Andersonâs Magnolia. It was an ensemble piece about intertwined existences and how fear played a role in our lives. Over the years, I learnt how to make films by shooting some shorts, and in 2017, I decided to look at the script again. For budget reasons, we couldnât raise the amount required to stick to the original concept. So I felt that the beating heart of the story was between two brothers on opposite sides of the law.
20 of the Best Films of 2020
Updated / Monday, 28 Dec 2020
08:27
Here s hoping we re back to all this in 2021
In the year that lasted a decade, the movies helped us to escape like never before. Here are some of our boltholes.
Uncut Gems
Sarah McIntyre says: It is rare that a film as relentlessly propulsive and uniquely gripping as
Uncut Gems comes along - probably about as rare and mesmerising as the uncut opal around which a lot of the action centres in this high-octane thriller. From acclaimed sibling filmmaking duo Josh and Benny Safdie, who were behind the excellent 2017 crime-drama
Uncut Gems similarly thrives on chaos and a mounting sense of stress that verges on panic-inducing. Adam Sandler puts in a career-best performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking Manhattan diamond district jeweller who funds his compulsive gambling habit with increasingly high-stakes dodgy dealings. An endlessly nerve-wracking, visceral assault of a movie.
It wasn t so bad in the end, at least where cinema was concerned. Even with all those tentpole releases pushed back to next year, 2020 was so thronged with quality movie titles that narrowing down this selection of the best titles was quite a task.
With theatrical releases few and far between, we found ourselves excellently served by platforms such as Curzon, IFI@Home, and Netflix (which emerged as a feature-film market leader). When cinemas could be returned to in safety, there were still home-grown wonders and big-studio productions worth venturing out for, with the odd bloated anti-climax thrown in for good measure (Christopher Nolan s Tenet was hugely disappointing).