Cal

The love scenes in Cal are among the loveliest I've seen, because Helen Mirren, who plays Marcella, makes her such a sweet and tender woman, and John Lynch, who plays Cal, is so touchingly sincere.

CAL succeeds in painting a realistic picture of the Troubles because it avoids simplistic moralizing, presenting the motives of love and war as complex and contradictory, just as they are in life.