As improbable as it may seem, one of the best films out of South by Southwest last year was about rival sheep farmers in rural Ireland. It’s also one of the most nuanced and provocative films about toxic masculinity in recent memory, and equally unsettling. Written and directed by Christopher Andrews (in his feature debut), Bring Them Down stars Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan as the sons of sheep farmers who stand to inherit their respective father’s farms on either side of a shared hill.
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