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Cal

1984

Drama / Romance / Thriller

Cal

1984

Drama / Romance / Thriller

Available in: 720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
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92% TOMATOMETER · 13 reviews

79% AUDIENCE · 100 ratings

6.5/10 · 1.8K

720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
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based on novel or book 1970s ira (irish republican army) ireland guilt belfast, north ireland

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Plot summary

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

Director

Pat O'Connor

Top cast

Helen Mirren as Marcella

Tom Hickey as Preacher

John Kavanagh as Skeffington

Ray McAnally as Cyril Dunlop

Tech specs

720p.WEB 1080p.WEB

941.28 MB

1280*690

English 2.0

23.976 fps

1 hr 42 min

Seeds 7

1.89 GB

1920*1036

English 5.1

23.976 fps

1 hr 42 min

Seeds 6

Comments 1

GeoffreyA 523 days ago

Thanks for the high-resolution copy of this Helen Mirren classic!

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IMDb reviews

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6 / 10

Catholic “Cal” (John Lynch) lives with his father

CinemaSerf

Catholic “Cal” (John Lynch) lives with his father (Donal McCann) in an overwhelmingly Protestant area under constant threat of being burned out. They are…

Catholic “Cal” (John Lynch) lives with his father (Donal McCann) in an overwhelmingly Protestant area under constant threat of being burned out. They are determined not to be forced from their home, even when things turn violent, but this isn’t the young man’s only exposure to thuggery. He has been a driver for Republican hit-man “Crilly” (Stevan Rimkus) and his boss “Skeffington” (John Kavanagh) and that has left him with a dark secret to keep as well as a reluctance to join their crusade. Meantime, he has taken a bit of a shine to widowed local librarian “Marcella” (Helen Mirren) who lives out of town at her family’s farmhouse. Her husband was an RUC officer gunned down on his doorstep whilst her grandfather was also badly wounded. “Cal” now orchestrates a plan to befriend the woman and as the story develops, we learn more of what connects and may ultimately destroy the pair. Largely, I thought, down to Ray McAnally’s stoic “Dunlop”, this is quite a telling evaluation of the “troubles” in Northern Ireland (where it was considered too dangerous to actually film this). His characterisation of their farm manager brings home the realisation that there were “bastards on both sides”, and the random brutality - though stylised to avoid being excessive - goes some way to illustrate not just the hatred but also the extent to which that permeated through a society viscerally divided. Flags were symbols and weapons here as much as they ever were during the Battle of the Boyne. Mirren isn’t the best here. Her underwhelming efforts border on the simpering at times and with the denouement fairly obvious from the start, the story itself doesn’t really ever ignite. Mark Knopfler provided the score, but even that only really delivered a few recognisable bars now and again rather than anything more substantial, and maybe that just summed the whole thing up as a rather bitty romance set in what is little better than a guerrilla war zone. It is worth a watch and certainly resonated more as the IRA and a newly invigorated and re-elected British government showed little sign of compromise at the time, but even there it really underplays the sinister nature of what was every day life - for both traditions.

6 / 10

Helen Mirren was fine

christopher-underwood

Although I had never watched this because it was rather difficult for me so that the IRA and the bombs still so near in the 70s. But when I saw Neil Jordan's…

6 / 10

Dame Helen Mirren deserved her Best Actress win at Cannes for this film

JuguAbraham

"The wages of sin is death" ---Romans 8:5. That's the board nailed on a tree by a priest soon after the opening credits. Lots of killings and finally the wages…

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