Toronto Film Review: ‘Calm With Horses’

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Films set in West Ireland often have a tourist board-certified feel, selling the scenery and quaintness in ways designed to make you ring up your travel agent (if those still existed). But no one w…

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), the sort of tosser who sucker-punches over nothing, and gets his muscle-bound pal loaded on drugs in order to convince him to do worse things he’s too cowardly to do himself.

A chain of events is set in motion by a Devers family friend molesting one of their teenage daughters during a drunken house party. It’s determined harsh justice should be meted out to save the clan’s honor, yet of course it falls to non-member Arm to do the dirty work. As ready as he is with his fists, however, Arm isn’t a psycho like some of his adopted family — he balks at taking a life.

Jarvis’ performance creates a sympathetic Neanderthal — we soon realize the best he can hope for is to leave others out of the mess he probably won’t be able to extract himself from. Likewise, Algar deftly inhabits a local type just smart enough to grasp a way out, while Keoghan and Dennehy are vividly credible as two bottom-dwellers of the gene pool.

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