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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with DAN CARRIER
Published 9 November 2006
 
Cillian Murphy Cillian Murphy
DVD of the Week

THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
20th Century Fox, £19.99

KEN Loach’s drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley hits the small screen this week.
Loach used a largely unknown cast he gathered from amateur dramatic theatres across the republic to portray the band of IRA fighters at the turn of the last century struggling against British rule.
The raw nature of the people he works with makes for great viewing and lends the story with his usual air of gritty realism.
But it is also sentimental towards the idea of a socialist, free Irish state and at other times brutal in its depiction of revolutionary politics.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley scores the usual political points which make a Loach film. But the story of the two brothers split like their homeland over the partition question has enough personality in it to make it interesting for the viewer who is not particularly interested in Irish history.

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