Another Neil Jordan beautifully made film, with splendid actors, especially good with the young boy, Eamonn Owens and wonderful music. Certainly for the first forty minutes it is well done of the boys and especially told of the dysfunctional family and the way that Owens retreats into his fantasy with his TV, aliens, communists and the Atomic Age. Although as the film still goes on I'm not really enjoying the 'black humour'. The boy is really good and went on with The Magdalene Sisters (2002) and Breakfast on Plato (2005). Jordan had a good time with, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Michael Collins (1996) and this one many like it with an award in Berlin but I really wasn't too happy.
Review of The Butcher Boy
