Cathy Brady’s Explores Political and Personal Issues in Her Toronto Debut ‘Wildfire’

Also Read: What Vanessa Kirby Told Ellen Burstyn Just Before Her 'Pieces of a Woman' Monologue (Video)“Wildfire” is the story of two “Irish twins” who reunite after one of the sisters has been missing and living alone for a full year.

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Two sisters from a Northern Irish town close to the border with Eire, played by Nika McGuigan and Nora-Jane Noone, feel the long shadow of both the Troubles and their own troubled past when they're reunited after a long estrangement in British-Irish co-production Wildfire.

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Tomris Laffly There are troubles of the familial kind at the center of “Wildfire,” writer-director Cathy Brady’s gloomy debut feature set in a border town of Northern Ireland. Then there are “The Troubles,” the decades-long conflict between the region’s unionists and nationalists, the aftermath of which gives Brady’s straightforward and overstretched story its faint backdrop.

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