Film review: Foscadh is an emotionally charged and psychologically complex film

The film is loosely adapted from Donal Ryan’s novel The Thing About December
Film review: Foscadh is an emotionally charged and psychologically complex film

★★★★☆

Set in rural Connemara, Foscadh (Shelter) (16s) takes an interesting approach to its exploration of masculinity. Left alone in the world when his mother suffers a fatal heart-attack, the slow-witted John (Dónall Ó Héalai) is told by his elderly neighbour Paddy (Macdara Ó Fátharta) that ‘it’s time to stop living like a ghost'.

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