if it s absolutely necessary. david. and in that phrase, if it s absolutely necessary, is kind of the nub of it. we re told the boy is he s a nobody. he s a villager from far away. no one knows who he is, but of course he isn t. he has a father who then arrives at the villa and says, you must pay reparations by travelling with me to my home to bury the boy. ralph fiennes s character says, we re not going with him. i don t know who he is. you know, maybe they want money or maybe worse. but then the film kind of bifurcates between, on the one hand, the villa where all this debauched revelry is going on, and on the other hand, the journey of his character. this is directed by john michael mcdonagh. i think it has very good performances, not least by ismael kanater, who plays the father of the boy driss,
and in that phrase, if it s absolutely necessary, is kind of the nub of it. we re told the boy is he s a nobody. he s a villager from far away. no one knows who he is, but of course he isn t. he has a father who then arrives at the villa and says, you must pay reparations by travelling with me to my home to bury the boy. ralph fiennes s character says, we re not going with him. i don t know who he is. you know, maybe they want money or maybe worse. but then the film kind of bifurcates between, on the one hand, the villa where all this debauched revelry is going on, and on the other hand, the journey of his character. this is directed by john michael mcdonagh. i think it has very good performances, not least by ismael kanater, who plays the father of the boy driss, who when you first meet him, he s very sort of hard to read, but as the drama goes on, says an awful lot often not with words, but through expressions. i think it s well done. it s slightly inert at times.
where all this debauched revelry is going on, and on the other hand, the journey of his character. this is directed by john michael mcdonagh. i think it has very good performances, not least by ismael kanater, who plays the father of the boy driss, who when you first meet him, he s very sort of hard to read, but as the drama goes on, says an awful lot often not with words, but through expressions. i think it s well done. it s slightly inert at times. and the central subject of it is, aren t these ghastly white people ghastly? and the answer is, yes, they are. and, therefore, the challenge of the story is can you make what happens to them interesting? were you gripped by it? i was gripped and quite tense and i think it s very well acted, but there s a lot of characters in it who are really unpleasant. and i think it takes us back to. i often have this debate with any work of art, a book or a play or anything. if everyone is unlikable, you can reach a point
he has a father who then arrives at the villa and says, you must pay reparations by travelling with me to my home to bury the boy. ralph fiennes s character says, we re not going with him. i don t know who he is. you know, maybe they want money or maybe worse. but then the film kind of bifurcates between, on the one hand, the villa where all this debauched revelry is going on, and on the other hand, the journey of his character. this is directed by john michael mcdonagh. i think it has very good performances, not least by ismael kanater, who plays the father of the boy driss, who when you first meet him, he s very sort of hard to read, but as the drama goes on, says an awful lot often not with words, but through expressions. i think it s well done. it s slightly inert at times. and the central subject of it is, aren t these ghastly white people ghastly? and the answer is, yes, they are. and, therefore, the challenge of the story is can you make what happens to them interesting?