Archive for September, 2006
The Wind That Shakes The Barley: Dir. Ken Loach
Although the main characters in Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes The Barley may be fictional, the story of the bloody conflict between British soldiers and the Irish Republican Army in the 1920s is not. Those who’ve seen Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins will find the theme of Loach’s film familiar: brothers pitted against each other as they find themselves on different sides of the Irish struggle for independence Read more
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