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FREARSERIES

Continuing the Stephen Frears Film Festival with

The Snapper (1993)

This is Frears' third film and the second in the Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle.

This is a simple story with lots of family/neighborhood humor.

It helps to have the English subtitles on.

It is not as frought as other Frears films but it engenders the same deep emotional responses.

With the close-in shots and the cramped quarters of the scenes and sets we become part of the family.

I would give this one a 4 out of a Frears5; a very subjective reaction.

I just didn't enjoy it as much as the other films we are seeing in the Fest.

I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5 as it compares to other films by and with other people.

Labels: films, Frears