Jun 24 2006
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Dir: Ken Loach
Writ: Paul Laverty
- Cillian Murphy - Damien
- Pádraic Delaney - Teddy
- Liam Cunningham - Dan
- Orla Fitzgerald - Sinead
- Myles Horgan - Rory
Opening with a hurling scene in Cork in the 1920’s this film lives entirely within the experience of the main character, Damien. A young doctor about to leave Ireland for a career in London he is pulled into the Irish War of Independence. And this film is about his fight. The film starts without any introductory text, there is no attempt made to make the viewer aware of the wider world, this is Damien’s story and only his story.
