Barry Keoghan as a sheep farmer's son in Bring Them Down. (MUBI)
Sheep farming has gained the Hollywood treatment in a new film starring up and coming star Barry Keoghan.
The Irish actor, who has featured in Marvel's big screen epic Eternals and the Banshees of Inisherin, plays a farmer in the film Bring Them Down, which is set in Ireland.
Barry has also featured in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, Emerald Fennell's Saltburn, and Matt Reeve's The Batman.
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But it is far from a fluffy or woolly affair.
Christopher Abbott, who has recently appeared in Oscar winning Poor Things and Kraven the Hunter, stars as Michael, a shepherd who is thrust into a bitter feud on several fronts with a rival farmer who steals sheep from his farm.
Michael, the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing father, Ray, played by Colm Meaney.
Burdened by a terrible secret, Michael has isolated himself from the world.
When a conflict with rival farmer Gary and his son Jack, played by Barry Keoghan, escalates, Michael is drawn into a devastating chain of events, forcing him to confront the horrors of his past and leaving both families permanently altered.
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Barry's character goes to extraordinary lengths in the film which involves internal strife, hostility, paternalism, heritage, and the generational trauma cycle through the cultural prism of Ireland.
Rural crime is also raised in the film, including, without spoilers, a very difficult scene which could make one's toes curl.
MUBI's Bring Them Down is in cinemas now.
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