Mammal review: brilliant depiction of unspoken needs and muffled emotions
Michael McElhatton nicely balances Rachel Griffith’s deadened cool in Rebecca Daly's film, but it is the young Barry Keoghan who walks away with the picture
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Nerve endings and swagger: Barry Keoghan in Mammal
Can the timing be a coincidence? Margaret (Griffiths) learns that her 18-year-old son - who she abandoned in infancy - is missing, presumed dead, just as she befriends Joe (Keoghan), a shiftless teenager living on the streets of her rather unsavoury borough.