From: "Gragert, Jeremy Evan" <GRAGERJE@uwec.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:55:43 -0500 Subject: The Wind That Shakes the Barley - FREE Film - Oct. 10 - 8pm Message-ID: <DC9F505A4ACB32489179913AE6565659405F20CAF7@CHERRYCOKE.uwec.edu>
Free film presented by:
EAU CLAIRE PROGRESSIVE FILM SERIES
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Wednesday, Oct. 10 – Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire
8:00pm – FREE – Followed by facilitated discussion
127min/2006 – Winner of the PALME D'OR at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival
In early 1920s Ireland brothers Damien and Teddy team up to fight against B
ritish colonial rule in the Irish Revolutionary War but end up on opposite
sides in the subsequent Civil War that develops between Free-Starters and R
epublicans. Directed by Kenneth Loach and starring Cillian Murphy, The Win
d that Shakes the Barley powerfully evokes the pain and heartbreak involved
in the struggle for national independence, while lamenting the loss of a s
ignificant opportunity to make a newly independent Ireland a genuinely demo
cratic socialist republic. Designed to encourage serious reflection on con
temporary issues of terrorists versus freedom fighters, revolution versus r
eform, idealism versus pragmatism, and loyalty to principle and cause versu
s loyalty to family and friends.
Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460989/
http://www.thewindthatshakesthebarley.co.uk/
The Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival is expanding to include a monthly film series during UW-Eau Claire's fall and spring semesters. The Eau Clair e Progressive Film Festival & Series is sponsored by The Progressive Media Network.