Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down
If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party. The feature debut by Christopher Andrews is set in a dour and desolate vision of rural Ireland, and feels like the cinematic equivalent of walking through a foggy bog with mud up to your knees. Yet for all the atmosphere, captured by the sturdy cinematography of Nick Cooke, there’s very little of dramatic note to make this trek through the sins of fathers and sons worthwhile.
After a dramatic, backstory-establishing car crash opens the picture, the film settles into a loose Rashomon-like structure that pivots around the events that follow.… Read the rest
