'The Wind That Shakes The Barley' wins Palme d'Or

Agent Orange

BBC News story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5025812.stm

A British director but a very Irish film about the early days of the IRA. A boon for Irish film one hopes?

Hugh Hefner

Well the director said it would be a boon for British film, heh.

Anyway, why the thumbs-down? Is the film not good?

Agent Orange

It's a thumbs-up. Are you viewing this in Australia?

I have no idea if the film is any good - let's hope it is. Whoever picked up the distribution in Ireland is going to make a mint.

Basq

There's a trailer for it online at www.pathe.co.uk

Horrible Flash site so can't link directly to it!

EDIT: Actually... here you go!

Not exactly sold on it from the trailer... but will keep a look-out for it!

J.R.HARTLEY

Agent Orange wrote:

BBC News story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5025812.stm

A British director but a very Irish film about the early days of the IRA. A boon for Irish film one hopes?

Funded by the Britisj Lotto and Uk film comission, with the money going straight back out of th country, make no mistake about it, this is a british film merley the subject matter is irish, in exactly the same way as Gandhi is a british film, don't place any hope for irish film on the back of this.

flogen

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

Funded by the Britisj Lotto and Uk film comission, with the money going straight back out of th country, make no mistake about it, this is a british film merley the subject matter is irish, in exactly the same way as Gandhi is a british film, don't place any hope for irish film on the back of this.

Well it may help the Irish film industry, the majority of the actors were local, and it was shot entierly in Ireland... I wonder if this will be watched in Britain much, it's getting a lot of stick for being "anti-British", makes it helpful that the Director himself is from there

dubaim

Will be interesting to see what the Brit reviews are like when it opens in a few weeks. Yes, you'll find a lot of people in UK just not interested in stories such as this. Some reviewers also tend to get touchy on subject matter that doesn't show them in a great light, though you get that in other countries as well.

However, Loach has an immense reputation amongst critics who will rightly judge this against his other and well acclaimed work.

Remember when I went to see Michael Collins on its 1st weekend in a London suburb. There was only three others in the cinema.

A shame that nobody at home felt the desire to back what is a Ken Loach film, with Cillian Murphy in it. Commercially, you would have thought it attractive proposition, plus there still hasn't been any like a definitive War of Independence drama. Hope this is it.

Probably will benefit home film industry to some extent - remind film makers of the exceptional locations, though the tax breaks will always hold sway with the money men.

A Dub in Glasgo

Looking forward to this. Don't be surprised if this gets slated by the British media. There is a lot of denial about the British Imperialist past.

J.R.HARTLEY

flogen wrote:

Well it may help the Irish film industry, the majority of the actors were local, and it was shot entierly in Ireland... I wonder if this will be watched in Britain much, it's getting a lot of stick for being "anti-British", makes it helpful that the Director himself is from there

i think it was a brave move by loach on that count, he's never shyed away form calling it as he sees it, hopefully it may help the irish film industry but all we ever get out of things like this is that the talent is poached to bigger film industries, not that i begrudge the talent, fair play to them for being successful, but i don't see too much hope for irish cinema on the basis of this movie.:(

lodgepole

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

i think it was a brave move by loach on that count, he's never shyed away form calling it as he sees it, hopefully it may help the irish film industry but all we ever get out of things like this is that the talent is poached to bigger film industries, not that i begrudge the talent, fair play to them for being successful, but i don't see too much hope for irish cinema on the basis of this movie.:(

It's already helped the film industry just by being shot here. It employed hundreds of people and brought business to many industries in the south and south west. The more quality films that are produced within Ireland, the more studios will begin to trust Irish crews, Irish landscapes and Irish stories.

MisterAnarchy

Alot of it was shot in my area.
Some of my friends who are in the FCA (now RDF) werent too happy about having to play the part of the Black and Tans.:D