![]() ![]() The boys are scared when they hear that the two men are still at large. One evening they watch the news to see footage of two black men shooting dead a shopkeeper. ![]() Aisha is caught up in her own sorrows, but is shocked at what she sees.īefore we can make sense of the situation we are taken back in time to when Michael and Francis are young boys, alone in the apartment over night when their mother works the late shift in the hospital. His mother is mute with grief, and doesn’t react at all when Michael ushers in old school-friend Aisha into the flat. Michael lives with his mother in the apartment that now never sees sunlight. The boys start scaling the pylon.īut in the future, Francis is not there. Francis says that the ascent, dangerous and difficult, will help Michael grow in confidence, something that, compared to his elder brother, he lacks. ![]() Set across three time periods, Clement Virgo’s film begins in the middle as teenage Michael is persuaded by his elder brother Francis to join him in climbing a pylon that overlooks the city. Based on David Chariandy’s novel, it’s a glowering story of racism and childhood, and shot so beautifully it often takes one’s breath away. Surely one of the main contenders in the 2022 BFI London Film Festival’s Official Competition is Brother, which looks at two siblings growing up in Scarborough, Toronto, in the 1990s and the early 2000s. ![]()
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