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:
Director Steve McQueen finds beauty in the squalor. And to his credit, he doesn't sermonize or take sides.
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Maclean's Magazine
There is very little context, because on the inside, prison has no context. There is just horror. And maybe, sometimes, in the least expected places, beauty.
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The Rumpus
Rating: 3.5/4 --
McQueen allows us to walk away shattered, beaten, and horrified, with our own conclusions.
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From the Front Row
[One] of the best films of 2009....A gut-punch of a docudrama...
A.V. Club
4 stars out of 5 -- HUNGER is a powerful, difficult piece that announces McQueen as a singular talent, and Michael Fassbender as an actor of note.
Empire
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Relying on images more than words, it's a plea for humanity in times of insanity.
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Toronto Star
4 stars out of 5 -- McQueen shoots much of film almost without dialogue, heightening its bleak intensity.
Total Film
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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