I really liked this film from Ireland for it's simplicity and detail. A guy named Josey lives and works in a Garage situated on the outskirts of a small Irish town. He has no wife, girlfriend, family, or any real friends to speak of, his hum-drum existence centers around the Garage, the occasional walk alone in the Irish countryside, and his nightly sojourn to the pub where he seems to be the butt of local humor. The thing about Josey is that he's a very likable guy, I almost thought that he was a simpleton, he never resents his situation in life, he is affable to everyone, and never complains about his lot. Josey's suffering is punctuated in small moments throughout the film, but they go almost unnoticed by the viewer. The girl he fancies tells him it's never gonna happen, the locals in the pub tell him his Garage job (which he loves) is only temporary because the owner is looking to sell the Garage and land to property developers, a horse that was previously free to roam in his field, and that Josey visited on a regular basis to feed apples, is now tethered and cannot approach the gate when Josey calls, and a moment where Josey meets a man on a bridge, the man carries a sack containing new born puppies which he is about to dump into the river, Josey and the man converse for awhile before the guy throws the sack into the river, Josey's last words to the man being "maybe it's for the best" were significant. I became totally involved watching this movie, the photography of the Irish countryside is short but wonderful to look at, the Irish lilt of the actors with every other sentence ending in the word "so" makes you feel your in Ireland, the depiction of Josey's lonely life is totally believable. A great small film.
