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Hunger
2008
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit. Read more
| Starring | Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan |
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| Director | Steve McQueen |
| Genres | Drama |
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Hunger
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.
| Starring | Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan, Liam Cunningham, Dennis McCambridge, Liam McMahon, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Rory Mullen |
|---|---|
| Director | Steve McQueen |
| Studio | PATHE VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Hot Hits |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description |
| Released | DVD: 23 Feb 2009 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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69 out of 71 people found this review helpful
Stunning
McQueen is an artist, and this film is a work of art. With little dialogue, Hunger is comprised of striking images. Harrowing at points, it offers beauty in the most alienating and unexpected places. Hunger is not I believe didactical, prison guards and prisoners alike suffer. It could however, be argued that the strategic use of Thatcher's terse uncompromising voice over emotive scenes undermines the higher political processes. Which is bound to aggravate Thatcherites!
All-in-all it must be seen by anyone seriously interested in cinema as an art form. It is demanding, and slow-paced, if you are a hardened fan of blockbusters this will not tick your boxes. -
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Oh my god what a boring film
Rented this hoping to get some insight into the lives and motivations of the IRA hunger strikers and those responsible for keeping them incarcerated. No luck. The primary challenge was staying awake. The film is long-winded, self indulgent, overly 'arty' and most likely impossible to understand by anyone who is unfamilar with the historic context of the film. Unbelievably there is no reference to Bobby Sand's election to the UK parliament (unless it was while I was asleep)! 'Some Mother's Son' is a much better, if less-well shot film.
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- 27 Oct 2008
This is an extraordinary film – surely the best British film of the year. It’s the first feature directed by (no, not that) Steve McQueen – a very personable Young British Artist who won the Turner Prize in 1999 for his film installations – including, as I remember it, a reproduction of the famously dangerous Buster Keaton stunt in Steamboat Bill Jr where a house falls on top of him. (I met him a year later and he was desperate to make a feature even then – “ Read more
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