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First review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley

13 May 2006 at 02:54 PM | by Melty_Girl

[Note: This was originally published by cillianONLINE, which has been inactive since September 2006.]

The UK website musicOMH.com has popped up with the first review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley, rating it 5 stars out of 5. A solid rave!

From Danuta Kean's review:

Ken Loach's masterful The Wind That Shakes the Barley at first appears to be a partisan view of the events that lead to the Irish Free State in 1921. But Loach is a more complex filmmaker than that... Loach conveys the true horror of civil war, its fracturing of families and friends, and the way in which our humanity can become buried under the rhetoric of ideology and indignation. He is aided by a very strong cast, led by the excellent Cillian Murphy, whose pretty boy sensitivity is countered by the muscular Pádraic Delaney.

And expect the North American release date to be announced by mid-June!