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A Sense of Loss

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Acclaimed documentarian Marcel Ophuls takes a thorough and emotional look at the violence between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland, chronicling the human devastation the conflict has caused, while paying close attention to the ideologies of opposing leaders: Catholic social activist Bernadette Devlin and Protestant clergyman Ian Paisley. Ophuls also documents the long and bloody history of the conflict, and voices his own opinions on the issue.

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Pauline Kael The New Yorker 09/21/2023
Few films have contributed as much to our understanding of the psychology of political conflict. A Sense of Loss is perhaps the first film to demonstrate how the original crimes against a people go on festering, blighting the lives of those yet unborn. Go to Full Review Louise Sweet Sight & Sound 01/28/2020
[Marcel] Ophuls is expert at plumbing the darkness by showing how the most ordinary institutions foster the conflict. Go to Full Review Michael McCarthy Los Angeles Free Press 01/03/2020
A film which could have brought home to the American people an analogous message about its own roots; about its own class struggle; about the ruler's game of pitting one section of an oppressed class against another. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 12/06/2010
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I don't feel any more enlightened about what's going on in Belfast after seeing the film than I was before seeing it. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Acclaimed documentarian Marcel Ophuls takes a thorough and emotional look at the violence between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland, chronicling the human devastation the conflict has caused, while paying close attention to the ideologies of opposing leaders: Catholic social activist Bernadette Devlin and Protestant clergyman Ian Paisley. Ophuls also documents the long and bloody history of the conflict, and voices his own opinions on the issue.
Director
Marcel Ophüls
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
2h 15m