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Classical harpist Ramona Sakalauskaite will perform two concerts during the Fleadh, which draw parallels between traditional Irish music and the world of classical compositions. Ramona, a harpist of international renown, will perform in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Sligo this evening, Thursday, August 13 at 7.30pm. She will also perform in St John’s […]
Four stars
Starring: Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Ruby Rose O’Hara, Molly McCann, Conleth Hill, Daniel Ryan, Erika Roe, Dmitry Vinokurov, Mabel Chah and Aaron Lockhart
Rating: R, for profanity and vicious domestic violence
Available via: Amazon Prime
By Derrick Bang
Enterprise film critic
There’s a strong sense, throughout this superbly mounted little Irish drama, that star/co-scripter Clare Dunne writes from personal awareness.
I dearly hope that isn’t the case.
She stars as Sandra, a single mother with two young daughters, who has just escaped her possessive and abusive partner, Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson). Although “the system” has kept a roof over their heads, bouncing them from one tiny hotel room to another, she’s barely scraping by. She works two part-time jobs, to keep them fed: as a pub barmaid and as a housekeeper for Peggy (Harriet Walter), an aging doctor for whom Sandra’s mother once worked, back in the day.