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    Hunger (2008)

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    Date: 16 Mar 2011 14:19:50
    Hunger (2008)

    Hunger (2008) [Criterion Collection #504]
    DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 (720 x 480) | AC3 DD 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | 01:36:09 | 4,55 Gb
    Language: English-Irish Gaelic | Subtitles: English
    Genre: Biography, Drama, History | Nominated for BAFTA Film Award + 33 wins & 16 nominations | UK, Ireland

    The final months of Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army activist who protested his treatment at the hands of British prison guards with a hunger strike, are chronicled in this historical drama, the first feature film from artist-turned-filmmaker Steve McQueen. Davey Gillen (Brian Milligan) is an IRA volunteer who is sentenced to Belfast's infamous Maze prison, where he shares a cell with fellow IRA member Gerry Campbell (Liam McMahon). Like most of the IRA volunteers behind bars, Gillen and Campbell are subjected to frequent violence by the guards, who in turn live with the constant threat of assassination at the hands of Republicans during their off-hours. Campbell and Gillen are taking part in a protest in which they and their fellow IRA inmates are refusing to wear standard prison-issue uniforms as a protest against Britain's refusal to recognize them as political prisoners, a move that is complicating their efforts to pass information among the other prisoners.

    As the protest fails to get results, one IRA member behind bars, Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), decides to take a different tack and begins a hunger strike, refusing to eat until Irish officials are willing to acknowledge the IRA as a legitimate political organization. However, while Sands' protest gains the attention both inside prison walls and in the international news, not everyone believes what he's doing is right, and Sands finds himself verbally sparring with a priest (Liam Cunningham) who questions the ethics and effectiveness of the strike.

    Hunger received its world premiere at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Un Certain Regard program.

    IMDB 7.6/10 (9,616 votes)

    Criterion

    Flesh. Faith. Feces. In "Hunger" (2008), political resistance is rooted in the body, a body pushed to the limit and ultimately fueled exclusively by belief.

    "Hunger" is the story of Bobby Sands, a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer who led the 1981 Irish hunger strikes at the now infamous Maze Prison (Her Majesty´s Prison Maze, also known as the H-block.) In an ongoing protest for IRA members to be granted recognition and rights as political prisoners, Sands and dozens of other prisoners refused food until their demands were met, though the film suggests Sands fully expected to become a martyr for the cause. Sands died after 66 excruciating days, making him both a media sensation and a rallying point for IRA sympathizers.

    Hunger (2008)

    But Sands (Michael Fassbender) appears surprisingly late in his own story. First-time feature director Steve McQueen begins instead with a prison guard (Stuart Graham) preparing to leave for work in the morning. He eats a hefty British breakfast (bangers and something or other, of course), checks under his car for bombs and steels himself for another day on the block. McQueen´s sympathies indisputably lie with Sands and the other prisoners, but he provides some time (not equal time, but more than a fleeting moment) to the authority figures, suggesting that they too are the product and, to some extent, victims of a fascist penal system. Later we also see a riot guard crying after his role in a savage beating.

    Hunger (2008)

    When Sands finally appears he isn´t even identified at first and, as far as I can recall, is only called Bobby throughout the film (near the end his parents are identified as Mr. and Mrs. Sands.) The script, written by Irish playwright Edna Walsh and McQueen, eschews exposition in favor of a full immersion experience that occurs almost exclusively within the walls of the prison.

    Hunger (2008)

    The prisoners are not only stripped of power but are literally stripped of clothing. They demand to be allowed to wear their civilian clothes as political prisoners would be. Refusing to wear prison garb, they clutch only at thin blankets in their dank cells. They use the only thing they have left to show resistance, their own bodies. The prisoners smear the walls with feces, and funnel their urine into the prison hallways. The guards respond by trying to break these resisting bodies. Malnourished, naked prisoners are routinely beaten by guards clad from head to toe in riot gear. The prisoners are forced to undergo violent cavity searches and to have their hair shorn off by ham-fisted jailers wielding dull scissors.

    Hunger (2008)

    It might sound odd to say that a film about blood, piss and shit can be beautiful, but McQueen, a Turner Prize-winning visual artist, and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt shoot even the most grotesque sequences with an aesthetic rigor that borders on portraiture. The film´s tour de force centerpiece is a 20+ minute conversation between Sands and a parish priest (Liam Cunningham) which consists mostly of an unbroken 17-minute shot. This static two-shot of a dialogue scene, potentially a major drag, is transformed into a work of art as the characters are shot in near-silhouette, just barely limned by sunlight. The long take also features some of the most stylish use of cigarette smoke since Hollywood´s Golden age.

    Hunger (2008)

    The film´s final act shows Sands gradually wasting away as he uses his body for one final act of defiance. Michael Fassbender, most recently seen as the heroic film critic in "Inglourious Basterds," put the finishing touch on a physically committed performance by spending ten weeks on a stringent diet, transforming his already trim body into a skeletal frame. Sands, rail-thin and clad in a white sheet, is unmistakably likened to Christ and the last scenes are imbued with a sacred aura as we watch him make the ultimate sacrifice.
    Christopher Long, www.dvdtown.com
    Hunger (2008)

    Encoder's notes:
    The movie is untouched. Removed were the trailer and THE PROVO'S LAST CARD?, a 1981 BBC show about the hunger strikes. Kept and reencoded were:
    - STEVE MCQUEEN: interview with the director (17:52)
    - MICHAEL FASSBENDER: interview with the star (13:39)
    - THE MAKING OF HUNGER: a making-of docu (13:24)
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