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Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Unflinching, uncompromising, vivid and vital. Steve McQueen’s challenging debut is not for the faint hearted, but still a richly rewarding retelling of troubled times.
Theatrical Release:Dec 5, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Renowned English video artist Steve McQueen's feature film debut, HUNGER, is a cinematic punch to the gut. McQueen brings a visceral intensity to his retelling of the hunger strike instigated by... [More]
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan
Director: Steve McQueen
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For your art-house pleasure and discomfort, here's one of the most talked-about film-festival triumphs of 2008, a disturbingly avid re-creation of the last six weeks in the life and slow, self-imposed wasting of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands.
Top CriticAs prison-movie machismo, Walter Hill’s Undisputed is better; as visual art, Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments is superior.
A harrowing yet lyrical account of the fatal hunger strike of Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, in 1981.
Top CriticI've seen Hunger three times, and with each screening, the spectacle of violence, suffering, and pain becomes more awful and more awe-inspiring.
Top CriticLet's just pray this incendiary flick doesn't reignite civil unrest in the region.
Hunger is a searing experience. Just don't expect to have much of an appetite when it's over.
It’s a brilliant work of power, maturity and vision that should not be missed.
Top CriticMinimalist in its approach and unconventionally structured, the film functions more as a stylistic exercise than an exercise in putting forth a hard-line political agenda or a sociopolitical point of view.
This is a lean, spare film, which is highly visual. There are long stretches of film with no dialog.
An astonishing film. Transcendant.
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Em sua estréia como diretor, McQueen exibe uma surpreendente segurança na concepção de seus planos, alternando com inteligência entre elaborados planos-seqüência e fascinantes planos estáticos e longos, jamais perdendo controle da narrativa.
Breathtaking. Astonishing. My pick for Best Picture of the Year. See this for one of cinema's greatest ever scenes, tagged as "The Scene".
A stunning debut, and the most powerful film at the 2008 Cannes Film Fest, Hunger captures the life and death of a major figure in U.K. politics, beautifully played by Michael Fassbender, who should become an international star.
More concerned with Bobby Sands's bed sores than his politics. A movie apparently inspired by Mel Gibson's "Passion". The Irish revolutionaries, whatever their flaws, deserved something more like "The Wind that Shakes the Barley".
A gut-wrenching prison drama that can be compared to Jonas Mekas's brutal 1957 film 'The Brig.'
The farther I got from the queasy beauty of McQueen's movie, the more I hated it.
An unconventional biopic that tells in an aesthetic no-holds-barred way the harrowing story of Irish Republican Army activist Bobby Sands.
In a minimalist way which uses visuals to explain the deepest ideological divides and a single, 17 minute take to clarify all motives, McQueen condenses four decades of fighting into a single, epic overture.
[The] unflinching camera, deliberate pacing and maddeningly long takes (including a 10-minute, single-shot conversation that, while hypnotic, belongs on stage) just amplify the story's innate harshness and test audience endurance levels.
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