'Bring Them Down': Director Christopher Andrews on toxic masculinity and male rage

'Bring Them Down': Director Christopher Andrews on toxic masculinity and male rage

Revenge, repression and raw emotion: British director Christopher Andrews' debut feature "Bring Them Down" is a searing exploration of toxic masculinity. Set in rural Ireland, the film follows two feuding farming families, exposing how cycles of violence and emotional suppression shape generations of men. With powerhouse performances from Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, it’s a brutal yet deeply human story. The director sits down with Eve …

In his first film, director Christopher Andrews plants his camera in the West of Ireland, but cares like half a pint of brown beer of the kind tourist considerations. Welcome to a world of bullies where man is always a wolf for his neighbor.

The Black Beast Clearly, Le Clan des Bêtes is a success story for his director. British filmmaker Christopher Andrews has finished a subject he had matured since his debut at the turn of the 2010s. His first feature film thus deals on a large scale with the themes at the heart of his previous short films (Together Again, Fire [...]

For his first feature film, Christopher Andrews shows obvious know-how and a rough writing, rid of any psychology that is too explanatory to aim for a kind of dark primarity. Christopher Andrews' "The Clan of the Beasts" post: bloody and the beats appeared first on Benzine Magazine.

An Irish shepherd is drawn into a violent conflict with a nearby farm and his sheep are massacred in the night. Wolves are not who you think they are. Fierce and disturbing.