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The Wind Shakes More Than Barley
by Steven (movies profile)
Dec 28, 2007
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This film won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes film festival. No doubt its timely takes on the topics of torture and insurection against a foreign occupier had something to do with that. This film presupposes the viewer already knows something about The Irish War for Independence and The Irish Civil War. There is very little character development in the film. The story is almost entirely plot driven. It tells the grim tale of some valiant freedom fighters resisting a foreign power, and the even more grim tale of the civil war that erupts when those same freedom fighters can not agree on what freedom is supposed to look like after the insurection is won. |
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