1996 · drama · biography · war
Michael Collins
Directed by Neil Jordan2h 12m1996
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Our read: Michael Collins (1996) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · biography · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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