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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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The Madness of Paul Messkel

The story is Paul Messkel, who of course was Oscar nominated for After Sun. He comes back to this remote Irish fishing village after years away in Australia. Emily Watson is his mother and she can't quite believe he's back. She thinks it's genuinely some kind of miraculous event. The central dilemma is that he is accused of having done something terrible. And she alibis him, even though she knows that what she's doing is lying. So it's the tension is between what she thinks she should do in terms of telling the truth and what she will do for her son.

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