Christy
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Tired of his difficult life in foster homes, 17-year-old Christy leaves his last family to go to his older half-brother Shane, who lives in a working-class neighborhood in Cork. This Shane doesn't sit around waiting for Christy. He is just as much of an agitator as Christy, and does not want Christy to blow up his own tentative attempts at a family life with his wife Stacey. He has a job as a painter-decorator and has recently had a child. Through Christy, he is confronted again with the problems of his life before: their mother's death and its aftermath. In their own ways, the two brothers seek to process their damaged pasts and find a sense of connection among themselves.
The drab suburbs...
Tired of his difficult life in foster homes, 17-year-old Christy leaves his last family to go to his older half-brother Shane, who lives in a working-class neighborhood in Cork. This Shane doesn't sit around waiting for Christy. He is just as much of an agitator as Christy, and does not want Christy to blow up his own tentative attempts at a family life with his wife Stacey. He has a job as a painter-decorator and has recently had a child. Through Christy, he is confronted again with the problems of his life before: their mother's death and its aftermath. In their own ways, the two brothers seek to process their damaged pasts and find a sense of connection among themselves.
The bleak suburbs of Cork's Northside region are gradually colored with hope in "Christy," an old-fashioned coming-of-age film with an authentic sense of place, people and vernacular. Brendan Canty's feature debut is a longer version of his 2019 short film of the same title. It has become not only an enclosed domestic drama but also a densely populated study of a resilient working-class community in Ireland's second-largest city.