peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2009 03 01 Hunger

Hunger

Sun, Mar 01, 2009./noise/movies | Link

Much better than it had a right to be; not much happens, the narrative is entirely predictable to anyone who knows anything about the IRA and Bobby Sands. The scene in the middle, a twenty-minute plus dialogue between Sands and the priest, makes the movie. The lead actor must have a huge future, like Christian Bale (cf The Machinist) before him.