Friday, March 20 2009
Hunger
The focus of Hunger is emphatically the death of Bobby Sands, specifically, what happens to his body, viewed from a tragic outside and, to an imaginative extent, a determined inside.
Tuesday, September 11 2007
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Ken Loach’s controversial Palm d’Or winner is a work of supreme ambivalence.
Friday, March 16 2007
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Ken Loach's Cannes Palme d'Or-winning film uses a familiar narrative form, it does so in a way that leaves the form itself in doubt, heroizing no one, offering no resolution.
