My Left Foot follows Christy Brown from childhood through to his meeting with Mary Carr, the woman he will marry soon after the action of the film has finished. In common with other stories in the biographical genre, the story begins with Christy’s earliest relationships with his family, before his circle of influences extend beyond [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christy Brown’
6 Sep
Christy Brown…Hero?
‘I saw it as more than a rather grim story of a man in a wheelchair. Christy represented for me a real kind of heroism and I really wanted to try to capture the rage and frustration that led him to paint and write. To show, I suppose, that the trap is not the wheelchair [...]
Damien Gallagher
