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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019802529
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Ifc
Manufacturer: Ifc
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Ifc
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 04, 2007
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 876
Studio: Ifc
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Product Description:
Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country Damien (Cillian Murphy) abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But despite the apparent victory civil war erupts and families who fought side by side find themselves pitted against one another putting their loyalties to the ultimate test. System Requirements:Run Time: 127 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 796019802529 Manufacturer No: 80252
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Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, this gripping drama by Ken Loach (Raining Stones) is set during the early days of the Irish Republican Army, when British occupation of the Irish radicalized many a citizen and caused some to take up arms. Cillian Murphy plays Damien, a medical student on his way to London when he witnesses a couple of atrocities committed by British troops. Instead of becoming a doctor, he turns into a leading and respected figure in an IRA division led by his brother, Teddy (Padraic Delaney). The film provides some fascinating historical insight into the nascent resistance movement as it was in 1920, and Loach brilliantly conveys the profound emotional transition young men had to make to become saboteurs and killers. Loach's realistic style is absolutely mesmerizing, with many scenes built around the dynamics of large groups: contentious meetings, torture sessions, battles, celebrations, and the like. One has the sense of history as a pool of energy, and one also develops a kind of Renoiresque appreciation for the fact that different people on opposing sides of a life-or-death issue have their reasons for believing what they believe. As the story moves along, subtle shifts in the perspectives of men and women who had once agreed to be absolute in their fight for freedom results in a tragic yet understandable schism among Irish patriots. The final half-hour of The Wind That Shakes the Barley says a lot about how the Irish, including people who had known one another all their lives, turned their wrath on one another for so many decades. This is an outstanding film, featuring the best performance yet by Murphy (Red Eye). --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - What a powerful film
Many of us have Irish roots, and have been to the Republic of Ireland many times, and seen the emergence in recent years of the "Celtic Tiger." We have watched films about the fight for Irish independence from England in the early 20th Century, but "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" may be the most powerful and moving yet. Its ensemble cast is magnificent, including Cillian Murphy as Damien.
Ireland shared a kinship with the American colonies in its fight against the cruelty and ... Read More
Rating: - Quick ship - Perfect Condition
Outstanding! Acting, directing, casting, etc. the best. I may be biased since my grandmother on my father's side came from Ireland to marry my grandfather, but I think not!! From stories I've heard and histories I've read about the Irish Revolution and the Irish Civil War, this movie is on target. The British were savage in their treatment of the Irish; and the Irish were savage in their treatment of the British and then of their own. This movie has something for everyone - history, action, ... Read More
Rating: - Micro View Of the Irish Rebellion and Civil War
This film does an admirable job of telling the story of the Irish Rebellion against the British and the subsequent civil war following the treaty that Michael Collins negotiated with England. Using the device of a group of young friends who are first caught up together in the rebellion and then opposed to each other during the civil war the film's shortcoming is trying to distill a complex National History into the lives of a relatively small number of characters.
Nevertheless the acting is ... Read More
Rating: - Wind That Shakes the Barley
The Wind That Shakes the BarleyExcellent movie and seems to be as true to life as you could see in a film. It presented the conflicting emotions of the people at that time in a very realistic way. The film made the historical events of the time seem much more personal and therefor the pain, suffering, sense of loss and triumph much more real.
Rating:  - Childish and one-dimensional
This film is a one-dimensonal account of the Irish war of independence and subsequent civil war in the 1920s. Every character is constructed as a childish stereotype and the result is less a film about what happened in Ireland than an account of Irish self-mythology about the conflict.
The real historical events are not so easy to deal with. In a few years, Ireland went from relative stability to a total breakdown in order which caused the british to leave. The answer to how that happened ... Read More
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