Against the backdrop of the 1994 IRA ceasefire, two friends land a score that could buy their ticket out of Northern Ireland in Kieron J. Walsh's Edinburgh Film Festival-winning charmer.
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Courtesy of Brendan Duffy, Keeper Films, Edinburgh Film Festival Nostalgia, like ecstasy, is a hell of a drug and Kieron J. Walsh’s warm-hearted, hot-headed “Skintown” is buzzing on both. A more polite brother to the “Kneecap” boys and a more cautious cousin to those “Derry Girls” still, the Fermanagh-set friendship comedy sends fizzy, sweetly chemical energy coursing through a rave-romanticizing riff on the coming-of-age formula. The story may not be exactly new, but its bittersweet life lessons are delivered with such retroactive affection and such eagerness by the appealing cast, that if you’re of a mind to complain, well, in the parlance of the movie, would you ever give over, catch yourself on and wise up.
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