Pilgrim Hill

It's a sign of how sh*te most Irish movies are that this badly photographed, poorly lit, cheap feature is so impressive. Slow moving and at times touching it's a study of a farmer who allows bad things to happen to himself. No wife, middle-aged, a dying father, and his cattle have TB. All that was missing was a postman arriving with the Local Property Tax letter! The lead character is not likeable so at times you won't feel sorry for him. Still, the first Irish social realist film since Pavee lackeen. What's impressive is that the tiny budget actually IMPROVES this film. Why or why wasn't our Film Board funding stuff like this a decade back? This is miles better than recent shouty and overhyped titles like Charlie Casanova and Between the canals. Hope its director ignores TV and Hollywood and keeps making stuff like this.

Title: Pilgrim Hill
Genre: Social realism
New/old: New
Cinema/DVD: Cinema