The debut feature from 24 year old Gerard Barrett, Pilgrim Hill paints a bleak, sometimes devastating, picture of life in rural Ireland. As he himself puts it, farmer Jimmy Walsh (Joe Mullins) is "uneducated, the wrong side of 40, and without hope for more". Left to care for the farm and his bed ridden father by himself, Jimmy's life has become one of tedious routine, one he desperately wishes to escape. But as hard as his life has become, events transpire to make it even harder. From the opening frame, Pilgrim Hill moves along with a slow, deliberate pace, following Jimmy as he goes about his day to day tasks, and really hammering home the wretchedness of his life. It is bleak and mundane, but it is all that he knows, so he marches on regardless. The movie is part feature film, part faux documentary, with Jimmy talking directly to the camera at times,...
- 4/12/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
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