This bucolic romance, co-starring bashful Jamie Dornan, is awash with whimsy, wonder – and laughable accentsThere’s a sublime awfulness and condescension to this American vision of Ireland, adapted by writer-director John Patrick Shanley from his Broadway stage hit: a mind-boggling stew of bizarre paddywhackery that makes John Ford’s The Quiet Man look like a documentary about crack dealers.
Two of its stars, Emily Blunt and Christopher Walken – both playing Irish people – engage in a colossal intergenerational battle for who can do the worst Irish accent.
Blunt and Walken’s brogue-off makes this the King Kong v Godzilla event of inauthentic Irish voices.It’s supposed to be happening in the present day, but it might as well be happening in 1958.
Blunt plays Rosemary, a beautiful, sharp-tongued farmer’s daughter in County Westmeath, and isn’t she in love with the soft eejit from the farm next door? The first time we see her,
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