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      • The New York Times Jul 30, 2020 The movie tries to convince you that Douglas is better than his worst self and can transcend the dehumanizing degradations in which he’s mired. But not even the filmmakers seem convinced, which may explain why they embrace baroque brutality topped by a dollop of audience-mollifying sentimentality.
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  2. Mar 16, 2020 · Calm with Horses is a punchy gangland tragedy from west-country Ireland. Cosmo Jarvis excels as a conscience-afflicted crime enforcer in Nick Rowland’s well-turned riff on a rudimentary tale. ︎ Calm with Horses is available to stream on BFI Player and most VOD platforms.

  3. Mar 6, 2020 · Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Powerful performances carry Calm With Horses, a grim Irish-set drama steeped in violence that marks a confident debut feature.

  4. Calm with Horses’ driving concern – the corrosive nature of violence on the self – is rendered in brutal, empathic precision, while the recovery of its protagonist’s humanity as it teeters on the cliff edge is simply heartbreaking.

  5. 5 days ago · Calm With Horses is exactly the kind of film that makes this job such a pleasure. When an unheralded movie, from a first-time director, featuring a couple of lead actors I have never heard of...

  6. Mar 9, 2020 · Review. Calm With Horses. Director Nick Rowland’s debut feature is a claustrophobic, inspired and layered crime drama set in the depths of rural Ireland. Monday 9 March 2020. Written by Helen...

    • Nick Rowland
    • Helen O’Hara
    • March 6, 2020
  7. Calm with Horses is a 2019 Irish crime drama film directed by Nick Rowland in his feature debut, and written by Joseph Murtagh. It concerns an ex-boxer who works as an enforcer for a criminal family in rural Ireland while providing for his autistic son.

  8. Jul 27, 2020 · Summary. Bleak and suspenseful drama set in the west of Ireland, not about crime but about the criminal lifestyle; and about man and his complex loyalties. I finished watching Calm with Horses (titled The Shadow of Violence for USA distribution) half an hour ago and I’ve not been able to sit still. The restlessness, the sense of basic ...

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