LOS ANGELES – A favorite on this yr’s Greatest Image Oscar race, the coming-of-age drama Belfast is essentially the most private movie writer-director Kenneth Branagh has ever made, he says. It’s a story of town of his delivery and why his household reluctantly fled for England in 1969.
Opening in Singapore cinemas on Feb 3, it’s a semi-autobiographical story a few nine-year-old boy, Buddy (Jude Hill), who finds his working-class Protestant household caught up in “The Troubles” – the lethal sectarian strife that swept Northern Eire for 3 a long time from the late Sixties.
