BBCNEWS This Cultural Life June 4, 2024 21:33:00
A film called belfast. uh-huh. how autobiographical a film is it? well, erm, it's seen through the eyes of nine—year—old buddy. it's seen at 50 years distance from me. so, inevitably, not everything happened absolutely as per but a vast amount of it is very directly autobiographical and where it isn't, i think there's a sort of emotional truthfulness about what the film embraces which is, that at nine—years—old, when the world for this young lad, literally turns upside down, where the ground is taken from beneath his feet, the pavements on which we stood 20 minutes previously are lifte...