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Brother david chariandy review5/22/2023 With dreams of one day becoming a DJ, music loving Francis runs within tougher circles and is a frustrated, tightly wound, slow burning time bomb of emotions. Michael is a quiet, sensitive type, who’s protected from the harsher aspects of inner city life by Francis. Packed to near bursting with richly detailed characters dealing with complex emotions being handled in empathetic, intricate, and thoughtful ways, Brother has the power to make what might look like a singular loss feel like everyone’s loss, rippling out to impact a wider area that can’t be ignored.īrother bounces back and forth across roughly a decade, between 1991 and the early 2000s, depicting the relationship between Michael (Lamar Johnson) and his older brother, Francis (Aaron Pierre), the sons of a single, Jamaican immigrant mother (Marsha Stephanie Blake) living in Scarborough. A lovingly crafted and emotionally resounding look at the ways loss can extend beyond a single family and impact an entire community, writer-director Clement Virgo’s stellar adaptation of David Chariandy’s novel Brother is one of the most impactful and relevant Canadian films in quite some time.
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