Film review: Hunger (2008). Bobby Sands undergoes a grotesque and dramatic transformation as his body decomposes in front of the viewer, which took two months .
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Hunger is known for its unbroken 17 minute 10 second continuous shot, in which Catholic priest Father Dominic Moran tries to talk Bobby Sands out of the Hunger ...
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There are some very long takes with no dialogue, with a particularly long one of a prisoner cleaning himself for what seemed like forever. The atmosphere in ...
For the first third of the 96 minute long film we get little dialogue, save for some perfunctory exchanges between prisoners and between guards.
Hunger is a movie with little in the way of contextualisation. We are thrown into direct confrontation with the characters, ...
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Hunger is a 2008 historical drama film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was directed by Steve McQueen and starred Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, ...
This movie is an exhausting 96 minutes, all because it's so effective. McQueen doesn't present an argument on what are hugely complicated and ...
“Hunger” is a visceral film with a philosophical bent, a meditation on will and endurance, on the human body as the ultimate site of protest.
The staggering shot lasts 17 1/2 minutes (beating “The Player's” record-holding eight minutes) of a 22 1/2 -minute scene, covering 28 script pages.