2008 · drama · biography
Hunger (2008)
Directed by Steve McQueen1h 36m2008
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
Our read: Hunger (2008) (2008) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · biography entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / biography, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- signature
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