With ‘Belfast,’ Kenneth Branagh Reclaims His Family’s Imperfect Past

The past two years have been a time riddled both with anxieties and the reflection that can accompany them. For writer-director Kenneth Branagh, he channeled his unrest and contemplations into Belfast—a black-and-white tribute to his childhood. “I felt at the beginning of the pandemic, when I was writing this, that we needed to be a little kinder to ourselves,” he tells Vanity Fair’s Rebecca Ford. Branagh continued, “We all needed to appreciate and value however imperfect—and every family, I suppose, is bound to be—the gifts that we’ve been given.” The filmmaker recalled the way his “period of innocence” was disrupted… Read Full Article