Jack O’Connell is a rising star. First cropping up in This Is England and Eden Lake, he made his mark in the third and fourth series of Skins, the new batch, as Cook – a hard nut womanising boy who was struggling to make his mark amongst the drugs and debauchery. Though he may be slightly tinged with the tough boy act, he has used that to his advantage. Giving visceral and evocative performances in recent films, he has most excelled in the recent Starred Up which is an unmissable gritty Brit flick that you should make sure you check out.
It looks like O’Connell is starring up again (bad movie pun so let’s move past that.) In the debut feature by Yann Demange, 71 revolves around the Belfast riots in which British soldiers were deployed to calm the violence down between Catholics and Protestants at a tense line that merged the religions together. The problem is that no one wants them there, and as it escalates, young Green Beret Gary is accidentally abandoned in the city with gunmen on his trail.
This brand new clip from Studiocanal sums up exactly what is tantalising from the film. Showing Gary wounded and hiding, it conveys that desperation for life and survival that is ingrained in Gary’s training. Also able to levitate the fright under his despairing composure, O’Connell shows the layers of his talent and skill with this remarkable ferociousness unparalleled in his generation of thespians. ’71 seems like a glorious piece of work that you need to watch.
'71 is out 10th of October
It looks like O’Connell is starring up again (bad movie pun so let’s move past that.) In the debut feature by Yann Demange, 71 revolves around the Belfast riots in which British soldiers were deployed to calm the violence down between Catholics and Protestants at a tense line that merged the religions together. The problem is that no one wants them there, and as it escalates, young Green Beret Gary is accidentally abandoned in the city with gunmen on his trail.
This brand new clip from Studiocanal sums up exactly what is tantalising from the film. Showing Gary wounded and hiding, it conveys that desperation for life and survival that is ingrained in Gary’s training. Also able to levitate the fright under his despairing composure, O’Connell shows the layers of his talent and skill with this remarkable ferociousness unparalleled in his generation of thespians. ’71 seems like a glorious piece of work that you need to watch.
'71 is out 10th of October
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