Seána Kerslake brings an edge and unpredictability that animates a carefully shaded story
The gig-jobbing Eileen agrees to taxi Shane between the North Down village of the title and Belfast, where he is failing miserably at a community comedy course. What follows traverses the entire spectrum of depression, as her acerbic defence mechanisms are met and matched by his melancholy. She dismisses his sorrow as martyrdom; he recognises her as broken.
Shot in a muted palette by cinematographer Federico Cesca, everything about Ballywalter is commendably understated. Kielty, an accomplished comedian, firmly sits on his jazz hands and performs some of the worst stand-up routines in the history of comedy. Kerslake brings an edge and unpredictability that animates a carefully shaded story. The specifics of place have their own texture; seldom has a script encompassed such a variety of uses for the great Ulster standard: ballbag.
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