The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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- Synopsis
- Two brothers are caught on differing sides of the battle for Irish freedom in this politically minded historical drama from veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach....
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- Director(s)
- Ken Loach
- Distributor(s)
- IFC
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 124 min.
Critic Reviews
Immediately has you in its thrall and doesn't let go -- a reminder of how powerful and moving cinema set in wartime can be when all the elements align.Read the full review
The history presented in The Wind That Shakes the Barley hardly feels like a closed book or a museum display. It is as alive and as troubling as anything on the evening news, though far more thoughtful and beautiful.Read the full review
The Wind That Shakes the Barley turns out to be a more complicated, more dramatically potent story than it appears at first. It's concerned at its core not with how bad the British were but with what the cost of dealing with them was for the Irish.Read the full review
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