Summary
"The Wind That Shakes the Barley" suggests that director Ken Loach is a fairly romantic guy for such a working-class social realist.
His brutal - and surely selectively told - portrait of the founding of the Irish Republican Army, as a grass-roots movement that ended with brother pitted against brother, is a tale of political and sectarian violence, whose contemporary moral is that the people most likely to forget the lessons of history are the ones who are in the position of repeating its mistakes.See the full content of this document
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Review; Ira's History a Gust in 'Wind'
But in "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," named after a folk song, the fog of war is also a mist that coats verdant moors in a way that even John Ford might...
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