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Summary Having disappeared from her quiet border town in Northern Ireland a year prior, Kelly (Nika McGuigan) suddenly shows up on the doorstep of her sister, Lauren (Nora-Jane Noone). Born within a year of each other, these “Irish twins” share a deep bond despite their differences: Kelly, the wild one, makes Lauren’s married life and factory jo...

Directed By: Cathy Brady

Written By: Cathy Brady

  • Front Row Filmed Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m
  • Front Row Filmed Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m

Wildfire

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
72
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Summary Having disappeared from her quiet border town in Northern Ireland a year prior, Kelly (Nika McGuigan) suddenly shows up on the doorstep of her sister, Lauren (Nora-Jane Noone). Born within a year of each other, these “Irish twins” share a deep bond despite their differences: Kelly, the wild one, makes Lauren’s married life and factory jo...

Directed By: Cathy Brady

Written By: Cathy Brady

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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80
Sep 5, 2021
Savagely powerful, directed with an unshowy but acute eye (the use of the colour red is a simple but searingly effective device), this is a terrific feature debut from the writer and director Cathy Brady.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 5, 2021
The film uses the Troubles and Brexit to frame its understanding of the past and the present. Brady suggests a liminal psychological space – much like the liminal political space that Brexit created – through which Lauren and Kelly’s traumas move and, perhaps, can be understood.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 3, 2021
Appearing opposite Nora-Jane Noone in a film that twists the actors round each other like competing bindweed, McGuigan could hardly have delivered a more bracing final performance. So savage is her turn that you expect water drops to hiss off her broiling skin.
By Donald Clarke FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 5, 2021
While occasionally veering into melodrama, Brady’s feature debut is a powerful slice of kitchen-sink gloom, and a blazing portrait of women on fire, unsure of where to go in the wake of rippling tragedy.
By Ryan Lattanzio FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 18, 2020
The structure of Wildfire’s narrative doesn’t emerge out of a simplistic progression from strife to reconciliation, as writer-director Cathy Brady has her characters follow a realistically erratic trajectory.
By Jake Cole FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 5, 2021
It’s a potent drama – and a melancholy reminder of the talent that Irish cinema and TV lost in McGuigan
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company British Film Institute (BFI), Cowboy Films, Film4, Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland, Northern Ireland Screen, Samson Films, Tempesta Films, The Wellcome Trust
Duration 1 h 25 m
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Website https://www.modernfilms.com/wildfire
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Awards

Irish Film and Television Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cork International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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