In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less than a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.
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| Long Island PressPrairie MillerBid for a genuine sense of history unraveling as strict realism, with currents of immense human heroism and courageous suffering in wartime. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerThe Wind That Shakes the Barley may want to view the world in black and white, but it's honest enough to admit that most of the time the truth is gray. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA beautiful film, harrowing, tough and rife with grief. |
| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinImmediately has you in its thrall and doesn't let go -- a reminder of how powerful and moving cinema set in wartime can be when all the elements align. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerIt's unmistakably the work of aging cinema activist Loach, who wears his social-justice heart on his sleeve and pauses the story for lively debates among the characters, especially as Sinn Fein signs a treaty that many think betrays the cause. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowTakes a chaotic moment in the long history of "the Troubles" and turns it into a keening, air-clearing epic. |
| San Francisco ExaminerRossiter DrakeLoach delivers a moving and often beautiful story that captures the essence of the conflict, with all its unintended consequences and personal tragedies. |
| Zertinet MoviesSteven SnyderA film that shows the slow push for freedom as the sticky, messy and lengthy process it really is. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldYou'll be heartbroken in the course of the film's two hours. |
| TIME MagazineRichard Schickel... despite its length (over two hours) and some structural problems, it is an absorbing, worthwhile and often passionate movie. |
