Liam Cunningham

The last six weeks of the life of the Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands. Renowned English video artist Steve McQueen's feature film debut, HUNGER, is a cinematic punch to the gut. McQueen brings a visceral intensity to his retelling of the hunger strike instigated by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and several other detained Irish Republican Army members in the early 1980s, who were determined to live in a Northern Ireland free from British rule. In prison, Sands and other IRA prison garb, but soon, they take their protest dangerously further. McQueen comes from an experimental background, and it shows. He and co screenwriter, ... Read Full Story

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