A Wild West tale told searingly well
Irish writer and director Ivan Kavanagh makes a huge leap forward with his first big-budget period film Never Grow Old, a revisionist Western set on the forbidding American frontier in 1849
Cinema
Never Grow Old: Directed by Ivan Kavanagh, Nationwide, 16,Rating:****
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Having made a series of independent contemporary features in the last decade – gripping dramas, gory horrors and devastating social critiques among them – Irish writer and director Ivan Kavanagh makes a huge leap forward with his first big-budget period filmNever Grow Old, a revisionist Western set on the forbidding American frontier in 1849.
