Movie review: The personal and the political are inextricably bound in Belfast

Ciarán Hinds steals every scene he’s in with his turn as the ailing old grandfather

Belfast - a Kenneth Branagh film

★★★★☆

Employing a child’s-eye view of the Troubles is something of a masterstroke by writer-director Kenneth Branagh, whose Belfast (12A), which opens in August 1969, is a semi-autobiographical account of an idyllic childhood rudely interrupted by riots, bombs and pogroms.