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...seductively: The Wind that Shakes the Barley. What are we talking about here - agronomy? Nor does its narrative - 1920s Ireland in the throes of what we would now call an "insurgency" - provide the analogies to current events that it would have been easy to make. Then there's the Ken Loach problem. He is a mild-mannered English leftist who has been for years making earnest, naturalistic, rather conventionally mounted studies about working-class topics that do not make the cinephile's aesthete spirit leap in anticipation. He's the kind of guy who turns down decorations from the Queen...
...purest form of the social weepie is usually a European art film. And Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley--which won the top prize at Cannes last year, has played at film festivals on four continents and is now in U.S. theaters--is an ideal Exhibit...
...challenge for the makers of political weepies is to bring as much art, intelligence and passion to them as to any other film. Your challenge as a viewer is to make up your own mind and heart. And if you remain unmoved by all the Irish mist in a Ken Loach film, don't think you've hardened into a Darth Vader. Saying no to a weepie, of any wing, is nothing to cry about...
...Tierra y Libertad” depicts the struggles of an English Communist, David, who joins in the fight against Franco’s Fascism, only to confront the massive infighting occurring amongst the anti-Franco’s forces, the Republican anarchists, and the communists.Directed by Ken Loach, the film conveys a clear political message and agenda, falling heavily on the side of the Republicans. Within that camp, the film sympathizes with the local militias and anarchists. The film does simplify the nuances of each warring side: fascists are often childlike, hiding behind women and children, while the Republicans, proud...
...Cannes Film Festival, has been given to such groundbreaking films as “Apocalypse Now,” “Blow-Up,” and “Pulp Fiction.” The newest entry added to this list of historic cinema is Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” an incredibly wan and uninspired drama chronicling the Irish Civil War of the 1920s. Although the Cannes jury embraced the film, the latest offering from the veteran British award-winning filmmaker falls far below expectations. Named...