Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Borstal Boy (2000)




Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan, is befriended as a teenager in a British labor camp by a liberal warden.

I haven't read the book, so I can't speak about the accuracy of this adaptation. It is a great reform school melodrama about the ambiguities of love with all participants in great form. Very touching without being too sentimental.

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