What Richard Did (IE, 2012)

I've written elsewhere about the Irish Film Syndrome. Lenny Abrahamson is about the only (well known at least) Irish film director who bucks this trend, making arguably the best Irish film of all time, Adam & Paul, and also the very strong Garage.

What Richard Did then moves away from the rural and urban underclasses to depict the rugby-playing gate-housed boarding-schooled silver spoons of recession-proof Dublin 4, and how casual, incidental, accidental violent death can also visit the uppermost echelons of society.

It's difficult to unremember the Annabel nightclub incident - which the film is clearly based on - and match it with the ending of this movie, which diverges significantly from actual events. It's not as good a film as the aforementioned masterpieces, but still a quality picture, retaining the director's trademark sensitivity, naturalism and realism.