‘Brother’: Toronto Review

“We are not safe.” Francis is not yet a teenager, but already the streetwise older brother to the gangly, diffident Michael knows enough about the world in which he lives - Scarborough, on the eastern sprawl of Toronto in the 1980s - to realise his mother is wrong to tell him that there is nothing to fear. The lives of two brothers, taking in timelines which span several decades and a devastating death, are threaded together in this supremely confident and affecting drama from Canadian director Clement Virgo. It takes in sexual awakening, a magpie’s haul of disparate musical influences, and delves into the experience of growing up black and male in a place where masculinity is measured by which end of the knife you are holding; where guilt is an assumption in every encounter with the police.

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