In Irish director Frank Berry’s new film Michael Inside, all of these questions are asked as he explores the story of the titular Michael, a young boy who ends up in prison and whose life is forced into a direction he hoped it wouldn’t go.
It’s a film about young offenders that’s not a comedy – a truth bomb about the reality of life for some people in Ireland.
Berry has long chronicled the types of issues that people can face when they live in disadvantaged areas, as explored in his films I Used T