Film report

The Wind That Shakes the Barley
1 why : I have choice The Wind That Shakes the Barley because is a 2006 Ken Loach film set during theirsh war of independence (1919–1921) and the Irish civil war (1922–1923). The film opens in 1920 as Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) with his brother Teddy (Padraic Delaunay) commands the local flying columm of the Irish Republican Army. Furthmore this film won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes festival . Loach's biggest box office success to date, the film did well around the world and set a record in ireland as the highest-grossing Irish-made independent film ever.

2 about director/mains actors: The film stars mostly Irish actors and was made by yhe famous British director Ken Loach. He succeeds in creating a spontaneous, realistic atmosphere in scenes and many actors, from Dustin Hoffman and (Robert Duvall)to Robert Carlyle and Petter Mullan in My name is Joe and Bread and roses with Adrian Brody. Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an irish film and theatre actor. he play in the superhero film Batman Begins, and Jackson Rippner in the thriller Red eye. Next came two contrasting, widely acclaimed starring roles: his Golden Glob Award-nominated performance as transponder outcast "Kitten" Breakfeast on Pluto and a turn as a 1920s Irish revolutionary in the 2006 Palme d'Or winner,The wind that shakes the barley.In the movie there is Liam Cunningham is an Irish actor who has appeared in A little Princess,First knight and numerous other projects

3 do you like this film: for me"The Wind that Shakes the Barley" is a fantastic film, and extremely apt given the current socio-economic climate in Ireland. We seem to be losing part of our heritage everyday, once again slave to foreign influences (both sides of the water) and willing to lose sight of our past to embrace the future.This is one of the better film in the categorie of realist war film that I have seen. It was extremely objective and a credit to Ken Loach for the accuracy