Audience Reviews Hunger is not an easy film to watch but it is a great film featuring a brave debut from a director and a powerhouse of an actor.
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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 ...
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Audience Reviews Hunger is not an easy film to watch but it is a great film featuring a brave debut from a director and a powerhouse of an actor. It certainly ...
Hunger is a movie with little in the way of contextualisation. We are thrown into direct confrontation with the characters, ...
Hunger is a harrowing BAFTA-winning drama that looks at life in a Northern Irish prison where guards brutally beat IRA inmates taking part in protests.
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.
Watching 'Hunger' again, I felt the splintered narrative was the only way to fully tell this terrible story. I even appreciated a scene, late in ...
“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.
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 ...
2008 debut feature Hunger about the Irish republican Bobby Sands who along with nine fellow inmates of Maze Prison died on hunger strike in protest.