This is my father

One of the better Irish movies from the '90s. It's a flashback story about a doomed romance between a 17-year old girl and Quinn. The anti-happiness brigade forbid the relationship and after the girl gets pregnant Quinn gets hounded by the community. It's one of those films where the story rules so it does get melodramatic. But everything about this picture is impressive: the casting; music score; cinematography; story; and locations used. It's one of those clichéd Irish movies (the local priest resembles Barry Fitzgerald!) that people living here dislike but this is the kind of stuff foreign audiences want to see made here. Good to see that the 'solitary tree in an empty field' from this movie was blatantly copied by the dire Eden over a decade later!