The film’s writer-director tells EW how the visual approach ties to his own childhood memories.
But his latest film,Belfast,is quite unlike anything we’ve seen from him before.
“But black-and-white carries that kind of quality.
Judi Dench, Jude Hill, and Ciarán Hinds in ‘Belfast’.focus features
It also has this kind of poetic quality.”
“Because there was a world in which there was a moral universe.
There was a bad guy, there was a good guy.
The bad guy would get defeated by the good guy.
The good guy would get the girl.
“We see Buddy’s view of him from behind.
It’s a big back.
There’s a huge, glowering sky behind.”
He tries to make sense of it from what he knows from the movies.
Watch our full interview with Branagh above.Belfastis in theaters now.
