The Wind That Shakes The Barley

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Cillian Murphy: ‘It is getting absurd with the dumbing down'
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Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’
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Richard Linklater: ‘Someone’s living back there, and he’s murdered somebody’
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Even The Wind that Shakes the Barley failed to reap real rewards

Vanessa Thorpe: As Pact points out, independent film producers lose out due to the burden of tax and legal requirements

Vanessa Thorpe

09, Jun, 2010 @4:49 PM

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Rob Mackie: The familiar Loach strengths are present and correct.

Rob Mackie

24, Nov, 2006 @10:43 AM

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Rental and retail: Ken Loach, 70 this year, won the Palme d'Or with this portrayal of the birth of the IRA. It's not one of his best, though, with its central characters - two brothers split like the organisation after the Anglo-Irish treaty truce of 1921 - seeming just too convenient and cliched a peg on which to hang the drama.

Rob Mackie

03, Nov, 2006 @12:01 AM

It's an ill wind

John Lloyd: The distortions of history in Ken Loach's film The Wind that Shakes the Barley do violence to the present as well as the past.

John Lloyd

28, Jun, 2006 @10:03 AM

A nation of amnesiacs

Paul Donovan: Never mind the football. We should be cheering on Ken Loach's award-winning film The Wind that Shakes the Barley.

Paul Donovan

26, Jun, 2006 @1:48 PM

Film of the week: The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Film of the week: Ken Loach's latest film is altogether more subtle than his predictably bilious critics would like you to know, says Mark Kermode.

Mark Kermode

25, Jun, 2006 @12:50 AM

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