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The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Has anyone seen it yet?Man I gotta do some catching-up: Four maybe pretty good movies up on the big screen, and one of them (300) at the Bose Imax, an experience and a half.
clark
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It's a bit too long (a VERY common problem these days) and loses some steam about halfway through until close to the end but the power of the first half and of the end more than make up for it.There's a fierceness and a rawness to the film and the performances (especially Murphy, the woman who played "Sinead" and the actor who played "Dan")... and to the portrayal of the land and the time. It almost feels like a docudrama at times... in the best way.
I'm often moved by stories of resistance and this was no exception but there was a point about 1/3 intto the film where two men were sharing a cell (don't want to say which characters and give anything away) and one of them found and read aloud a William Blake poem written on the wall (and don't I wish I could remember it). In that moment I was thrust even more deeply into the feeling of the film and it carried me quite a ways.
There were several other moving scenes including an older woman singing the words to "The Wind That Shook The Barely" early in the film and a scene later that deals with the consequences of betrayal.
Politically I was mixed in this film... siding easily with the Irish during the Irish War Of Independence part but feeling less clear (though the movie makes its sympathies very clear and I did lean towards those, if not totally politically then feeling wise) during the aftermath.
Don't know that I'd want to sit through it again anytime soon (one doesn't leave feeling good, that's for sure) but I'm very glad I saw it.
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
...I wouldn't call the Irish conflict exactly "political", owing to my view that the Brits did all in their nasty power to suppress the Irish, including outright starving them like Stalin did the poor Ukrainians.clark
That wasn't what I meant by political (although I certainly wasn't clear). The politics I was referring to were within the Irish side.
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
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... at the Brisbane Film Festival where it was the closing night special.
And I can guarantee that, whatever your politics, the film will shock you.
I won't go into detail because I don't want to act as a spoiler.
But there are few film makers with a powerful a vision.
No wonder you do everything upside down down there.
... we usually get films months after America and just this once we have a head start on you!
I am not sure how much it was shown apart from the festival circuit.
Its one of the most memorable films I have seen in the last few years.
Do go and see it.
What is wrong with that picture?
I could have sworn it was 2005, but it must have been 2006. The Brisbane festival is August.
Just teasing you, of course. I always love it when people say something reasonable in response to "What were you doing between 2pm and 3:15pm on March 11, 1989?"
And lucky man you are... I remember reading about that film, putting it on my mental list.You don't want to know what's showing on big screen here...
from about the same era; also a Malcom McDowell filmMcDowell was being hailed as the "angry young man" of British cinema about that time, and while he's OK in O Lucky Man, IF is a far more salvageable film
The best thing about O Lucky Man is the Alan Price soundtrack
Grins
...and one of my favorite Alans Price albums...wonderful and nealry unknown nowdays.Haven't seen O Lucky Man in about 20 years.
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