Fresh
Gripping, powerful, heart-breaking.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.
2006 · 2h 7m · Not Rated
Drama, War
Directed by
Ken Loach
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Overview
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Wind that Shakes the Barley is a multi-layered story, and the more you see those different aspects, the more you'll enjoy the film.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
Fresh
Raises hard questions about Ireland's uncanny ability to kneecap itself.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Fresh
[Loach] has made an often handsome, always sobering movie that does what the best movies do: leave us a whole lot less sure about what we ought to think.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh
[Loach is] the master of the docu-drama or the realist social film, and Wind is one of his masterpieces.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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