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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

My Left Foot (1989)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:43:08 | 6,58 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps, French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subs: English SDH, French, Spanish
Genre: Drama

Director: Jim Sheridan

Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to write with.

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Prior to 1989, not many knew of Daniel Day-Lewis – sure, he'd starred in a handful of British arthouse flicks in the Eighties (such as My Beautiful Laundrette, A Room with a View and The Unbearable Lightness of Being) but he wasn't very visible in the cinematic consciousness. Jim Sheridan's directorial debut, My Left Foot changed all that.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

The deeply moving true story of cerebral palsy-afflicted and celebrated Irish polymath Christy Brown, My Left Foot is an alternately tough and tender film (adapted from Brown's autobiography by Shane Connaughton and Sheridan) that deals honestly with disabilities, hinging upon Day-Lewis' utterly compelling and award-winning performance.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

Unfolding contrary to the usual "life-affirming triumph" biographies that Hollywood churns out, My Left Foot centers on the story of Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown (played by Hugh O'Conor as a child, Day-Lewis as an adult). Paralyzed from birth, he's written off as helpless and intellectually stunted - his strong-willed mother (Brenda Fricker, who collected an Oscar for her work) begs to disagree. By encouraging Christy to use his left foot (the lone part of his body not paralyzed), he soon learns how to write and becomes a famous author, artist and fundraiser. As he comes into his own, he also falls in love with his nurse, Mary (Ruth McCabe).

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

Nominated for five Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress) and winner of two, Sheridan's unblinking veracity lends an air of raw realism to what otherwise be an insufferably tear-jerking story. As it stands, this film earns the right to pluck heartstrings, doing so in as unsentimental a way as possible.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

A worthy and uplifting film that merits re-watching again and again, My Left Foot is a minor masterpiece of writing, acting and directing that has aged slightly but is nevertheless a modern classic. Sadly, this re-release doesn't give much cause for celebration as what's included in the way of bonus material is a little thin. Nevertheless, fans of the film may want to upgrade for the slightly better picture and those unfamiliar with this Irish drama may want to give it a cursory rental spin.
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

It's easy to imagine what My Left Foot might have looked like in the hands of a lesser director like, say, Ron Howard—its class consciousness swept under the rug and its mythic vision of parent-child love presented as sentimental bombast. Howard might have looked down at the main character, Christy Brown, who, in spite of his crippling cerebral palsy, went on to become an extraordinary writer and artist, as if to suggest Christy should rise to the level of those who could walk.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

But Jim Sheridan is more attuned to the hardships of people living with devastating mental afflictions and is sensitive to their feelings about their place in the world, and as such his camera almost always stays on the same level as his hero, like the beautiful scene in which the young Christy (Hugh O'Conor) crawls toward his pregnant mother (Brenda Fricker) so she can feed him. As he forces himself up, she struggles to bend down—mother and child meet each other half way, the first of many scenes gently overflowing with the unspoken love between a mother and her child.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

The film is loaded with such striking moments (Christy writing MOTHER on the floor and showing his family that he can write, kicking a football with his left foot and scoring a goal for his team, and throwing himself down the stairs to save his hurt mother), all of which evoke Christy's struggle to be recognized as something more than a helpless cripple. One hundred and six minutes is entirely too short a time span for Sheridan to cover Christy's entire life, but the performances are so profound they successfully fill in any and all gaps. When the female doctor (Fiona Shaw) who helps an older Christy (Daniel Day-Lewis) cope with his condition announces her engagement to another man, all one needs to comprehend Christy's intense love for the woman is Day-Lewis bitterly blurting out "con-grat-u-lations" before a crowded room.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

In her review of the film in The New Yorker Pauline Kael rightfully likened this outburst of words to slaps. But this isn't to say Christy's attack is unwarranted: Once again, the audience gets the profound impression—thanks to a remarkable Day-Lewis—that Christy feels emasculated, that Shaw's character should have known better than to take him and his condition at face value. Like Kael says about an earlier scene in which the people who live on the young Christy's block don't recognize that he had nothing to do with his mother falling down the stairs, "I don't know that any movie has ever given us so strong a feeling of intelligence struggling to come out to be recognized."
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

Special Features:
- "The Real Christy Brown Story" featurette (04:40)
- "An Inspirational Journey" featurette (10:12)
- Reviews Gallery
- Photo Gallery
- Sneak Peeks

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