Hunger (Criterion Collection)
An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Brian Milligan, Stuart Graham & Liam McMahon | |
Performer: | Helena Bereen & Larry Cowan | |
Directed by | Steve McQueen | |
Edited by | Joe Walker | |
Screenwriting by | Enda Walsh & Steve McQueen | |
Composition by | David Holmes & Leo Abrahams | |
Produced by | Robin Gutch & Laura Hastings-Smith | |
Director of Photography: | Sean Bobbitt |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's hard to say what's more visceral: Fassbender's embodiment of a whittling body that refuses to give out, or McQueen's extended shots of prison brutality and the mess of cleaning it up.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
It's a strength of this carefully composed, almost obsessively controlled picture that it has no interest in the conventional biographical focus on a subject.
Chicago Tribune
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Hunger is daunting and powerful work.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
[O]ne of the most talked-about film-festival triumphs of 2008, a disturbingly avid re-creation of the last six weeks in the life and slow, self-imposed wasting of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands... -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
It pretends to have an objective point of view, but only grants one group of characters the dignity of individuality.
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Kamera.co.uk
Mr. McQueen's concern isn't words that argue the merits of the case, but images that convey the horrific conditions in Belfast's Maze prison....Mr. Fassbender's performance is sensational...
Wall Street Journal
3.5 stars out of 4 -- Fassbender is magnificent, finding the soul of a character stripped of all resources except those that define him as a man....Shockingly immediate and philosophically reflective, HUNGER is an indelibly moving tribute to what makes us human.
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
Renowned English video artist Steve McQueen's feature film debut, HUNGER, is a cinematic punch to the gut. McQueen brings a visceral intensity to his retelling of the hunger strike instigated by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and several other detained Irish Republican Army members in the early 1980s, who were determined to live in a Northern Ireland free from British rule. In prison, Sands and other IRA members--including Davey Gillen (Brian Milligan) and Gerry Campbell (Liam McMahon)--at first protest by refusing to wear the standard prison garb, but soon, they take their protest dangerously further.
McQueen comes from an experimental background, and it shows. He and co-screenwriter, the acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh, blow all the prison movie clichés out of the water. They break their film into three distinct acts. In the first, Gillen and Campbell are tormented by prison guards and made to suffer in a cramped, feces-smeared cell. In the second, Sands and Father Moran (Liam Cunningham) have a startling battle of wits--and emotions--that occurs in a dazzling extended one-take sequence. Lastly, we watch as Sands slowly withers away to nothing. It's impossible not to make a political film out of this furiously political material, but McQueen chooses to concentrate on the more visceral, tactile elements of the story to drive his point home. HUNGER is one of the more exciting directorial debuts of recent memory.
McQueen comes from an experimental background, and it shows. He and co-screenwriter, the acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh, blow all the prison movie clichés out of the water. They break their film into three distinct acts. In the first, Gillen and Campbell are tormented by prison guards and made to suffer in a cramped, feces-smeared cell. In the second, Sands and Father Moran (Liam Cunningham) have a startling battle of wits--and emotions--that occurs in a dazzling extended one-take sequence. Lastly, we watch as Sands slowly withers away to nothing. It's impossible not to make a political film out of this furiously political material, but McQueen chooses to concentrate on the more visceral, tactile elements of the story to drive his point home. HUNGER is one of the more exciting directorial debuts of recent memory.
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