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The Playboys (1992)

In a detached Irish periphery village in 1957, unwed nourish Tara (Wright) is lectured by the womenfolk and priest on the wages of sin, while the men, particularly Police Sergeant Hegarty (Finney) hover take to moths thither a flame, only to meet with rejection. The situation worsens when she finally yields to Tom (Quinn), tale-spinning member of a troupe of travelling players led by the irrepressibly optimistic Freddie (O’Shea)… Directed by MacKinnon with great rate and a minimum of moralising or sentimentality, Shane Connaughton and Kerry Crabbe’s account of passion threatened by a repressed, close-knit intercourse makes for a superior period dramatic art, as tough, tender and piquant as Connaughton’s My Hand Foot. Much credit is due to the cast, uncommonly Finney, who brings a melancholy sombreness to a film which elsewhere steers sensibly bell-like of solemnity (the troupe’s hammy renditions of Othello and Gone With the Wind are especially funny). With swiftly a in timely fashion, place and mood sensitively evoked, this is solid, intelligent extravaganza, mercifully free of the usual ‘Oirish’ clichés.

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