Pete Postlethwaite's performance in In the Name of the Father is one of my favourite things from 1992. He's not that much older than Daniel Day Lewis (who plays his son in the film) but he plays the role of Giuseppe Conlon, a wrongly imprisoned man, with much sincerity. The scene above occurs as Giuseppe dies and the inmates light pieces of paper to celebrate his life and always gets me teary, and whenever I do watch it again it'll be doubly sad because Postlethwaite died today after a long bout with cancer. He may never have gotten that leading role he deserved, and he may have spent an undue number of times playing bit roles in thankless dramas - but he will be missed.
Light a candle for Giuseppe.
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