Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole’s anticipated new drama movie I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning has confirmed a UK release date. Directed by The Selfish Giant’s Clio Barnard, the film has already earned buzz after winning awards at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The story follows a group of Birmingham-based childhood friends who grew up on an estate together “dreaming of something more for their lives”, and have now hit their 30s.
However, “those dreams haven’t materialised quite how they imagined, and the future they once hoped for seems more out of reach than ever”.
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Viewers will be able to catch the movie in cinemas later this year on 4 December, just as awards season starts to heat up.
Cole plays the role of Rian, who has made a lot of money in London, while Jay Lycurgo is Oli, still stuck in his partying ways. Alongside them is Daryl McCormack’s Conor, who is expecting a baby and has dreams of running a business, while Anthony Boyle and Lola Petticrew play Patrick and Shiv, a couple who grapple with a secret that could spell disaster for their romance.
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning is adapted from Keiran Goddard’s novel of the same name by playwright Enda Walsh, who wrote the screenplay to Small Things like These.
The movie attracted a near-perfect 94% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes after its premiere earlier this year, and was called an “absorbing and moving social-realist picture” by The Guardian in a five-star review.
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“I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, a work of tremendous vitality, hope and community, is a beguiling and earnest reflection of the pleasure of discovering that life slow down at thirty. It’s just beginning,” added RogerEbert.com.
The Hollywood Reporter suggested the movie “offers a hearty, quintessentially British-Irish café fry-up of gritty realism, class consciousness and masculine despair, all washed down with tannic, milky mugs of message-bearing melodrama in the tradition of Ken Loach”.
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning is released in UK cinemas on 4 December.
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