CALM WITH HORSES REVIEW: "COSMO JARVIS LEADS CRIME DRAMA WITH THE MAGNETIC CHARISMA OF A YOUNG GARY OLDMAN"
CALM WITH HORSES REVIEW: "COSMO JARVIS LEADS CRIME DRAMA WITH THE MAGNETIC CHARISMA OF A YOUNG GARY OLDMAN" When you think of Irish crime yarns, what usually comes to mind are films that lean towards the comic: Paddy Breathnach’s I Went Down, for example, or even Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges. So there’s something refreshing about Nick Rowland’s feature debut, Calm With Horses. A hard-as-nails tale of a multi-generational family who laud it over an Irish rural town, this brooding drama delivers exactly what you might hope. Its ace in the pack is Cosmo Jarvis, the increasingly prominent British actor who takes the lead with the magnetic charisma of a young Gary Oldman. Working from a script adapted by Joe Murtagh from Colin Barrett’s short story of the same name (included in the writer’s 2014 collection Young Skins), Jarvis plays Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong, a former boxer now working as a hired hand for the Devers family. In charge of this ruthless clan of drug-running mobsters is ...