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Sometimes, Guy Hibbert's script -based loosely on the stories of two real men- was sublime, each line ringing as true and as clear as a bell; but sometimes it was so melodramatic and clunky, I felt I was watching a piece of bad theatre. Joe's mo no Io gue s we re absolutely desperate, I thought, and it was a mark of the brilliance of Nesbitt's performance that he delivered them with such aplomb, even though he must surely have known that they sounded like a Budgens version of Jacobean tragedy (Nesbitt's face would periodically fill with sorrow, but from the mouth up, so that when his eyes did finally swim with tears, it was as though grief had simply spilled out of him). [...] why did we have to have a similarly cut-priced Greek chorus in the form of a Converse -wearing TV runner who. over a companionable fag, told him how sad Alistair had seemed when she went round to his clinical Belfast flat?
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Gone, but Not Forgotten
Television
Gone, but not forgottenRachel CookeNorthern Ireland is the backdrop for a provocative look at the politics of griefFive Minutes of HeavenBBCzI've seen three films about the Troubles in the past ...See the full content of this document
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