Divorcing Jack

Dan Starkey writes a newspaper column in Belfast, likes a drink and makes fun of everything. He spends a night with a young woman he met at a party. The next day he finds her dead and becomes, all at once, a target for the police and for armed men alike. He has exactly one ally: a nun. David Caffrey's film works from a screenplay Colin Bateman adapted from his own novel. The action takes place in Northern Ireland on the eve of an election. The telling builds black comedy on top of political violence and puts nobody in the right; it finds everyone equally absurd. David Thewlis, Rachel Griffiths and Jason Isaacs are in the cast.