Others from Neil Jordan to Ken Loach, from Terry George to Jim Sheridan, also directed movies addressing the conflict. James Marsh's absorbing and very well-crafted Shadow Dancer, set in Belfast in 1993, is different. Marsh has made a thriller in which ideology is largely pushed into the background. He is not taking sides. The events he shows are safely in the past. Shadow Dancer is adapted from the novel by Tom Bradby, political editor for ITV News who was a Northern Ireland correspondent in the 1990s. Bradby, who also wrote the screenplay, has talked of his efforts to "drain all the politics out". At the core of the film is the suppressed romance between a Belfast single mum and...
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