Emily Watson

Paul Mescal

Aisling Franciosi

Declan Conlon

Toni O'Rourke

Marion O'Dwyer

Brendan McCormack

Lalor Roddy

Isabelle Connolly

Seán T. Ó Meallaigh

Steve Gunn

Leah Minto

John Burke

Enda Oates

Barry Barnes

Andrew Bennett

Philip O'Sullivan

Wendy Dynan Gleeson

Sarah J. Kinlen

Saela Davis

Anna Rose Holmer

Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly

Richard Mansell

Shane Crowley

Emmet Fleming

Rose Garnett

Celine Haddad

Rob Watson

Jeffrey Penman

Chayse Irvin

Jeanne Applegate

Julia Bloch

Shaheen Baig

Inbal Weinberg

Joan Bergin

Lara Campbell

Helen MacDermott

Sanghee Moon

Mary Fox

Michael Wood

Shonda Hunt

Janet Kellock

Lesley Langs

Juliet Martin

Valerie Nolan

Niamh Glynn

Edwina Kelly

Freddie Stopler

Shirley Talbot

Amy Burke

Karen-Ann Clancy

Ciaran Colton

Andrew Mannion

Rosie Pender

Aleksandra Stojanovic

Chris Foster

Patrick Downey

Brian 'Joker' Mulvey

Teddy Blanks

Michelle Giovanni

Nick McGinley

Layla Wolf-Zarpak

Iain Trimble

Andy Cole

Brendan Condren

Donal O'Shea

Jessica Grant

Fionn Condren

Danny Bensi

Saunder Jurriaans

Matthew Smith

Drama

God's Creatures

BBC Film

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Nine Daughters

WRAP Fund

Ireland

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

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"Brian" (Paul Mescal) has recently returned to his family home on the west coast of Ireland to a warm welcome from his mother "Aileen" (Emily Watson) and a largely indifferent one from his father "Con" (Declan O'Hara). For reasons we are not told, he has returned from Australia and is soon determined to pick up his ailing grandfather's oyster farming business. Despite knowing very little about this, he knuckles down and with the help of some "borrowed" half-grown's from the seafood factory where his mother works, seems intent on making a go of things. All is set fair until one evening, "Aileen" has to pay a visit to the police station where she learns of an accusation, a very serious accusation, being levelled against the apple of her eye. She reacts defensively, and firmly, as any mother probably would - but as the remainder of the story develops, we see her begin to reconsider her position. Might he actually have done what he was accused of? The story itself is all rather weak here, sorry. Some beautiful location photography and loads of lingering shots of folks having cigarettes doesn't really ignite this. The narrative is put together in a rather bitty, unconvincing, fashion and though Watson is on great form as the increasingly conflicted lady, Mescal offers very little beyond his hail-fellow-well-met character and the underlying gist of the story is seriously undercooked. It does offer us a glimpse of the difficulties faced by those making a living in this harsh and unforgiving environment and perhaps I will think twice before I eat an Irish oyster again, but I think too much emphasis has been placed on who is in this film rather than developing a story that has depth and detail and holds the attention of the audience. It is worth a watch, and it's co-produced by BBC Film so the telly at Christmas is sure to be a place to find it.

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