Brendan Gleeson shows his acting range
FRESH from adding a believable, grizzled and nuanced core around which the more cartoonish elements orbited in Calvary, Brendan Gleeson can now be seen adding heft to a Canadian comedy, The Grand Seduction.
It’s a charming, unlikely caper in which a moribund Newfoundland fishing village hopes to save itself from stagnation by getting an oil company’s recycling factory to locate there. The factory contract stipulates a doctor must be resident in the village, and that’s what the title alludes to: the desperate attempts by the locals to convince a cosmopolitan plastic surgeon that Tickle Head harbour is more to his taste than he might think.
