Calm with Horses 2020

6.3 / 10   107 vote(s)
Drama Crime

In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.

Homepage http://www.altitudefilment.com/film/sales/53/calm-with-horses
Release Date 2020-03-13
Runtime 1h 40m
Directors Nick Rowland, Piers McGrail, Benjamin Crowe, Mike Hayes, Conor Flannery, Claire T. Cassidy, David Kennedy, Zoe Tough, Denis Fitzpatrick, Dani Wall, John McHale, Sarah McLoughlin, Si Bell
Producers Daniel Emmerson, Michael Fassbender, Kate Glover, Theo Barrowclough, Conor McCaughan, Will Clarke, Mike Runagall, Rory Gilmartin, Gemma O'Shaughnessy, Ed Guiney, Filiz-Theres Erel, Iman Kiashemshaki, Clwyd Edwards, Roshni Maranat, Swapnali Mumbarkar
Writers Joseph Murtagh, Colin Barrett

'Calm with Horses' is definitely engrossing and heavy shit. There's some savage inner violence going on within the main character; the barbarity on the screen can't match the turmoil that's going on in his head. It's a strikingly accomplished portrait of a broken soul hauling himself back up from rock bottom. - Jake Watt

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