War makes for odd and beautiful bedfellows. In
Cal (1984) that strange pairing of apparently incongruent lovers in a battle-torn society extends to the sectarian violence of Northern Ireland. A sensitive, no-nonsense librarian has lost her husband, but a deep well of passion remains, stirring beneath her still, proper surface. A seething man-boy carries a front that is all passionate intensity, but deep
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