The Wind That Shakes The Barley
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| Directed by | Ken Loach |
| Written past | Paul Laverty |
| Produced by | Rebecca O'Brien |
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| Cinematography | Barry Ackroyd |
| Edited by | Jonathan Morris |
| Music by | George Fenton |
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| Running time | 126 minutes[iii] |
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| Upkeep | €6.5 million[1] [4] ($eight.three 1000000) |
| Box office | $25.7 million[4] |
The Current of air That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish gaelic State of war of Independence (1919–1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922–1923). Written by long-time Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, this drama tells the fictional story of two County Cork brothers, Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Potato) and Teddy O'Donovan (Pádraic Delaney), who bring together the Irish Republican Army to fight for Irish independence from the Uk.
The movie takes its title from Robert Dwyer Joyce's "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", a song gear up during the 1798 rebellion in Ireland and featured early in the moving-picture show. The film is heavily influenced by Walter Macken's 1964 novel The Scorching Wind.
Widely praised, the film won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[5] Loach's biggest box office success to date,[6] the movie did well around the world and set up a record in Ireland every bit the highest-grossing Irish-fabricated contained motion-picture show, until surpassed past The Guard.[7]
Plot [edit]
Canton Cork, Republic of ireland, 1920. Damien O'Donovan is near to leave his native hamlet to practice medicine in a London hospital. Meanwhile, his brother Teddy commands the local flying cavalcade of the Irish gaelic Republican Army. Afterwards a hurling friction match, Damien witnesses the summary execution of his friend, Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, by British Black and Tans, for refusing to say his name in English. Although shaken, Damien rebuffs his friends' entreaties to stay in Ireland and bring together the IRA, proverb that the war is unwinnable. As he is leaving boondocks, Damien witnesses the British Regular army vainly trying to intimidate a railway personnel for refusing to allow the troops to lath. In response, Damien decides to stay and is sworn into Teddy'due south IRA brigade.
Subsequently drilling in the mountains, the column raids the village's Imperial Irish Constabulary barracks to larn revolvers, and then uses them to assassinate four Auxiliaries. In the aftermath, Anglo-Irish gaelic landowner Sir John Hamilton coerces one of his servants, IRA member Chris Reilly, into passing information to the British Army'due south Intelligence Corps. As a consequence, the entire brigade is arrested. In their cell, Damien meets the train commuter, Dan, a marriage official who shares Damien'south socialist views.
Meanwhile, British officers interrogate Teddy, pulling out his fingernails when he refuses to give them the names of IRA members. Johnny Gogan, a British soldier of Irish descent, helps the prisoners escape, only iii are left behind. Later on the actions of Sir John and Chris are revealed to the IRA's intelligence network, both are taken hostage. Equally Teddy is notwithstanding recovering, Damien is temporarily placed in command. News arrives that the three remaining IRA prisoners have been tortured and shot. Simultaneously, the brigade receives orders to "execute the spies".
Despite the fact that Chris is a lifelong friend, Damien shoots both him and Sir John. Later, the IRA ambushes and wipes out a convoy of the Auxiliary Division, and in retaliation another detachment of Auxiliaries loots and burns the farmhouse of Damien'southward sweetheart, Cumann na mBan fellow member Sinéad Sullivan. Sinéad is held at gunpoint while her caput is roughly shorn, her scalp being wounded in the process. Later, as Damien treats her, a messenger arrives with news of a formal ceasefire betwixt Britain and the IRA.
After the Anglo-Irish gaelic Treaty is signed, the brigade learns that a partitioned Ireland will but be granted Rule condition inside the British Empire. As a issue, the brigade divides over accepting the terms of the Treaty. Teddy and his allies debate that accepting the Treaty will bring peace now while farther gains can be fabricated later. Others oppose the Treaty, proposing to continue fighting until a united Irish gaelic Republic tin can exist obtained. Dan and Damien further need the collectivisation of industry and agriculture. Whatever other course, declares Dan, volition change merely "the accents of the powerful and the colour of the flag".
Soon the Irish Free State replaces British rule, and Teddy and his allies begin patrolling in National Army uniforms. Meanwhile, Damien and his allies join the Anti-Treaty IRA. When the Battle of Dublin launches the Irish Civil War, the Anti-Treaty cavalcade commences guerrilla warfare against Gratis State forces. Every bit the violence escalates, Teddy expresses fear that the British will invade if the republicans gain the upper hand. His position is: "They take 1 out, we take one back. To hell with the courts."
Before long after, Dan is killed and Damien is captured during a raid for arms on an Irish gaelic Army barracks allowable by Teddy. Sentenced to execution, Damien is held in the aforementioned prison cell where the British Army imprisoned them earlier. Desperate to avoid executing his brother, Teddy pleads with Damien to reveal where the Anti-Treaty IRA is hiding the stolen rifles. In return, Teddy offers Damien full amnesty, a life with Sinéad, and the vision of an Ireland where Pro- and Anti-Treaty Irishmen can raise families side by side. Insulted, Damien responds by saying that he will never "sell out" the Republic the way Chris Reilly did and Teddy leaves the cell in tears. Damien writes a bye letter of the alphabet to Sinéad, expressing his love for her, and quoting Dan'southward words: "It's easy to know what y'all're confronting, quite some other to know what yous're for". Simply he says that he knows what he stands for and is not afraid to die for it and tells Sinéad to look subsequently Teddy. At dawn, Damien dies before a firing squad allowable by a heartbroken yet obstinate Teddy. Teddy delivers Damien's letter to Sinéad who is distraught and heartbroken. She attacks Teddy and orders him to exit her country.
Chief cast [edit]
- Cillian Spud – Damien O'Donovan
- Pádraic Delaney – Teddy O'Donovan
- Liam Cunningham – Dan
- Orla Fitzgerald – Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin
- Laurence Barry – Micheál Ó Súilleabháin
- Mary Murphy – Bernadette
- Mary O'Riordan – Peggy
- Myles Horgan – Rory
- Martin Lucey – Congo
- Roger Allam – Sir John Hamilton
- John Crean – Chris Reilly
- Damien Kearney – Finbar
- Frank Bourke – Leo
- Shane Casey – Kevin
- Máirtín de Cógáin – Sean
- William Ruane – Johnny Gogan
- Fiona Lawton – Lily
- Seán McGinley – Father Denis
- Kevin O'Brien – Tim
Production [edit]
The film stars more often than not Irish actors and was made past British director Ken Loach. It is an international co-production between companies in Ireland, Great britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, French republic, Belgium and Switzerland.
The title derives from the song of the same name, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", by 19th-century author Robert Dwyer Joyce. The vocal made the phrase "the wind that shakes the barley" a motif in Irish republican song and verse. Loach took some of the inspiration for Damian's character from the memoirs of republican leader Ernie O'Malley.[eight] University College Cork historian Dr. Donal Ó Drisceoil was Loach'south historical adviser on the film.
The film was shot in diverse towns within County Cork during 2005, including Ballyvourney and Timoleague.[9] Some filming took identify in Bandon, Canton Cork: a scene was shot forth North Main Street and outside a building next to the Court House.[9] The ambush scene was shot on the mountains effectually Ballyvourney while the farmhouse scenes were filmed in Coolea. Damien's execution scene was shot at Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, where many leaders of Irish gaelic rebellions were imprisoned and some executed past the British and latterly in 1923 by the Irish Free State.[10]
Many of the extras in the film were drawn from local Scout groups,[11] including Bandon, Togher and Macroom with veteran Scouter Martin Thompson in an important function.[ citation needed ] Many of the British soldiers seen in the picture were played by members of the Irish Army Reserve, from local units.
Amongst the songs on the film'south soundtrack is Óró sé do bheatha abhaile, a 17th-century Irish Jacobite song whose lyrics the nationalist leader Pádraig Pearse changed to focus upon republican themes.[12]
Soundtrack [edit]
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Traditional - Words by Robert Dwyer-Joyce
- Amhrán na bhFiann / A Soldier'southward Song - Traditional - Words past Peader Kearney & Patrick Heeney
- Oró! Sé Exercise Bheatha 'Bhaile - Traditional - Words by Padraic Pearse
- The Doon Reel - Traditional - Arranged by the performers[12]
Distribution [edit]
The commercial interest expressed in the UK was initially much lower than in other European countries and just 30 prints of the film were planned for distribution in the United Kingdom, compared with 300 in France. However, after the Palme d'Or award the film appeared on 105 screens beyond Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Respect Party, on whose national council Ken Loach was at the fourth dimension, called for people to watch the film on its kickoff weekend in order to persuade the film manufacture to prove the film in more cinemas.[xiii]
Themes [edit]
According to director Ken Loach, the film attempts to explore the extent that the Irish revolution was a social revolution as opposed to a nationalist revolution. Loach commented on this theme in an interview with Toronto'due south Centre Weekly (fifteen March 2007):[14]
Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do yous get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you build? At that place are usually the bourgeois nationalists who say, 'Permit's just alter the flag and proceed everything as it was.' So there are the revolutionaries who say, 'Let'south change the property laws.' It'southward always a critical moment.
According to Rebecca O'Brien, producer of the flick and a longtime Loach collaborator:[15]
It's about the civil state of war in microcosm ... Information technology'due south not a story like Michael Collins. It's not seeking that sort of biographical accuracy, but rather volition express the themes of the period. This is the cadre of the afterward Troubles, which is why it's so fascinating to brand.
Reception [edit]
The Air current That Shakes the Barley became the nigh pop independent Irish pic ever released in Republic of ireland, earning €377,000 in its opening weekend and €2.7 million by August 2006.[16]
The film received positive reviews from motion-picture show critics. As of 2021, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that xc% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 116 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Bleak and uncompromising, merely director Ken Loach brightens his film with gorgeous cinematography and tight pacing, and features a fine performance from Cillian Murphy."[17] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 82 out of 100, based on 30 reviews.[18]
The Daily Telegraph's film critic described it as a "brave, gripping drama" and said that director Loach was "part of a noble and very English tradition of dissent".[19] A Times film critic said that the film showed Loach "at his artistic and inflammatory all-time",[20] and rated it as 4 out of 5. The Daily Record of Scotland gave it a positive review (iv out of v), describing it as "a dramatic, idea-provoking, gripping tale that, at the very least, encourages audiences to question what has been passed down in dusty history books."[21]
Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Dominicus named it the 5th all-time movie of 2007,[22] and Stephen Hunter of The Washington Postal service named it the seventh best film of 2007.[22]
Jim Emerson, Roger Ebert's editor, gave the film a 4 star review, calling it "breathtakingly authentic", and declared it ranked "amidst the best war films e'er made."[23] In a generally positive review, the Irish historian Brian Hanley suggested that the movie might accept dealt with the IRA'south relationship with the Protestant customs, as one scene in its screenplay did.[24]
The film also revived contend on rival interpretations of Irish history.[25]
Awards and nominations [edit]
| Award | Category | Proper name | Outcome |
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| British Independent Film Awards | Best Thespian | Cillian Murphy | Nominated |
| All-time British Independent Moving picture | Nominated | ||
| Best Director | Ken Loach | Nominated | |
| Best Technical Achievement | Barry Ackroyd | Nominated | |
| Cannes Moving picture Festival | Palme d'Or | Ken Loach | Won |
| European Film Awards | Best Cinematographer | Barry Ackroyd | Won |
| Best Actor | Cillian Murphy | Nominated | |
| All-time Director | Ken Loach | Nominated | |
| Best Film | Nominated | ||
| Best Screenwriter | Paul Laverty | Nominated | |
| Goya Awards | Best European Film | Ken Loach | Nominated |
| Irish Motion-picture show & Boob tube Awards | Best Irish gaelic Film (Audience Award) | Won | |
| All-time Actor in a Supporting Role in a Feature Film | Liam Cunningham | Won | |
| All-time Movie | Ken Loach | Won | |
| Best Actor in a Pb Role in a Characteristic Pic | Cillian Murphy | Nominated | |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Characteristic Movie | Pádraic Delaney | Nominated | |
| All-time Extra in a Supporting Role in a Feature Film | Orla Fitzgerald | Nominated | |
| Quantum Talent (histrion) | Pádraic Delaney | Nominated | |
| Breakthrough Talent (actress) | Orla Fitzgerald | Nominated | |
| London Critics Circumvolve Film Awards | British Director of the Yr | Ken Loach | Nominated |
| British Flick of the Year | Nominated | ||
| British Producer of the Twelvemonth | Rebecca O'Brien | Nominated | |
| Smooth Film Awards | Best European Film | Ken Loach | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Paul Laverty | Nominated |
References [edit]
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- ^ a b "The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) – Financial Information". The Numbers . Retrieved 25 March 2018.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Wind That Shakes the Barley". festival-cannes.com . Retrieved 13 Dec 2009.
- ^ News from the UK Flick Quango UKFilmCouncil.org.britain, 23 Apr 2007 Archived 30 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Loach Film Sets New Money Mark" RTÉ.ie, 8 August 2006
- ^ Smith, Damon (eighteen March 2007). "The agitator". The Boston Globe.
- ^ a b "Filming Locations". IMDb. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
- ^ "Kilmainham Gaol". goireland.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on half dozen February 2007. Retrieved 2006-09-11 .
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- ^ Kerr, Aine (8 August 2006). "Loach film breaks Irish gaelic box-office records". The Irish Times. p. 3.
- ^ "The Wind That Shakes the Barley – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
- ^ "Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2007): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- ^ "Powerful – just never preachy" The Daily Telegraph, 23 June 2006
- ^ "The Air current that Shakes the Barley" The Times, 22 June 2006
- ^ "Troubles and Strife" The Daily Record, 23 June 2006
- ^ a b "Metacritic: 2007 Moving-picture show Critic Elevation X Lists". Metacritic. Archived from the original on two January 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (April 2007). "The Wind that Shakes the Barley". rogerebert.com. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ^ "Motion picture Eye: The Wind that Shakes the Barley/ Reviews/Result 5 (Sep/Oct 2006)/Book 14". Historyireland.com. Archived from the original on half dozen May 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ "Sectarian Wind Up – a defence of The Air current that Shakes the Barley". Cork Examiner. 26 June 2006.
External links [edit]
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley at the British Moving-picture show Plant
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley at IMDb
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley at AllMovie
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley at Box Office Mojo
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Current of air That Shakes the Barley at Metacritic
- Interview with Ken Loach from Socialist Worker, x June 2006
- Introduction to The Wind That Shakes the Barley script by Luke Gibbons, and Gibbons' respond to Kevin Myers
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