“What Richard Did” follows a role-model athlete into a party, and after a violent drunken spasm of jealousy, a rugby teammate is dead. Director Lenny Abrahamson’s second feature shifts from a light airy palette on the beaches near Wicklow to darkening tones as his story devolves from jostling bonhomie into death and guilt. Newcomer Jack Reynor is Richard Karlsen, a team leader who can’t contain his surging emotions when there’s competition for dark-haired Lara (Roisin Murphy). After a brawl goes too far and the police investigate, omerta sets in among the mates who witnessed the fight, putting a few new wrinkles in the age-old theme of Irish guilt. Reynor, who just signed with Wme, played the role of Richard when he was 19, the same age as his character. He and Abrahamson plumb the dark side of a bright, popular kid who seemed destined for success. Dp David Grennan...
- 9/12/2012
- by David D'Arcy
- Indiewire
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