{"id":1106882,"date":"2026-07-23T16:25:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1106882\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:25:29","slug":"peaky-blinders-star-joe-coles-absorbing-birmingham-set-drama-confirms-uk-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1106882\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole’s “absorbing” Birmingham-set drama confirms UK release date"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

However, “those dreams haven\u2019t materialised quite how they imagined, and the future they once hoped for seems more out of reach than ever”.<\/p>\n

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Chris Harris<\/p>\n

Related: UK film release dates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Viewers will be able to catch the movie in cinemas later this year on 4 December<\/strong>, just as awards season starts to heat up.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The movie attracted a near-perfect 94% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> after its premiere earlier this year, and was called an “absorbing and moving social-realist picture” by The Guardian<\/a> in a five-star review.<\/p>\n

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Curzon<\/p>\n

“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\u2019s just beginning,” added RogerEbert.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> suggested the movie “offers a hearty, quintessentially British-Irish caf\u00e9 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”.<\/p>\n

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning<\/strong> is released in UK cinemas on 4 December.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy<\/strong> as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole’s anticipated new drama movie I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning has confirmed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1106883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,215877,235804,1380,302045,1331,393,4884,258961,1330,302044,291041,16,15],"class_list":["post-1106882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-peaky-blinders","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-5e0bb2d2-b547-4510-93d5-a92e1392cb03","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-joe-coles-absorbing-birmingham-set-drama-confirms-release","tag-sponsored-false","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116970229909163922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}