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Ballywalter
Directed by: Prasanna Puwanarajah
Nationwide, 15A
Rating: ****
Seána Kerslake and Patrick Kielty form an unlikely connection in Prasanna Puwanarajah’s debut Ballywalter, set mostly on the winding road between that off-season seaside village on the Ards peninsula and the winter-grey streets of Belfast. It’s an appropriately atmospheric setting for this almost romantic, almost comedy of isolation and reconnection, centred on people at a crossroads who share a sinking feeling they have long since lost ...