Barry Keoghan, Cosmo Jarvis
Calm With Horses is the gripping feature debut from Nick Rowland, starring Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth) and BAFTA nominee Barry Keoghan (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk), two of the UK and Ireland’s fastest-rising stars.
Based on a novella from the collection of award-winning short stories Young Skins, Calm With Horses is set in dark rural Ireland and tells the story of ex-boxer, Arm (Jarvis), who has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, while at the same time desperate to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son. Torn between these two families, Arm’s loyalties are tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.
‘Calm With Horses is tightly paced, albeit like a drama, not an action thriller. Rowland devotes at least as much attention to Arm’s effortfully well-intentioned relationships with his ex and son as he does to the criminal mayhem interspersed throughout’ (Variety).
