"For instance at the London Film Festival an Iranian filmmaker came up to me at the end and said that's my story, the same thing happened with a Nigerian filmmaker. He explained: "I think if it was to have value my sense was it needed to find all the ways in which it might connect with a larger audience, in that they might identify with some of the issues to do with family, and that's been a thrill to understand. Focus Features Why Belfast is not a biopicĭespite the film being largely inspired by his life, Belfast is not a straight biopic and Branagh said the reason for this was so the story had a more universal appeal. Jude Hill as Buddy and Jamie Dornan as Pa in "Belfast", the film is inspired by director Kenneth Branagh's childhood. He added: "I guess I wanted to go back and shake hands with that 9-year-old boy and I wanted to try and understand the kind of thinking and feeling, and sacrifice my family made in us leaving Belfast, because I had come to understand by the end of last year's lockdown that it was really the most significantly influential event in my own personal life."
"One left that very secure place and it became a much more insular, inward-looking family, and individual actually." "It had been swirling around for the last 50 years, a sort of understanding that a certain kind of life that was so mapped out for me at the age of 9 where I absolutely understood who I was, this big extended family, this absolute secure knowledge of where you lived in the town, you were living in a city where you could never get lost, was suddenly utterly turned on its head.
"It was a sort of a necessary journey, I think," Branagh said of making the film, which he has previously described as the "most personal" one he's directed. The Much Ado About Nothing director spoke with Newsweek about the film, explaining the inspiration behind it.
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