Title: Fascinating, difficult to watch
Product review: Francie Brady is an exuberant, rambunctious gay preteen living in Cold War Ireland, with an abusive father, an insane mother, and neighbors and well-wishers with various nasty hidden motives. His one ray of hope is his boyfriend, Joe Purcell, but then Joe leaves him for another boy (a gift of goldfish becomes the emblem of betrayal), and Francie's descent into madness begins. It's an exuberant descent into madness, too, with violence that always comes as a shock, making the film fascinating but difficult to watch, more important than enjoyable.
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