Hunger

Peter Travers

Once upon a better time, there were audiences who looked for hardscrabble movies that pushed them out of their comfort zones into uncharted territory. Hunger is such a movie. It's an artistic triumph that asks us to enter the H blocks of Northern Ireland's Maze prison, circa 1981, and watch IRA prisoner Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) lead a hunger strike that will leave him skeletal and dead at the age of 27.
The facts of Sands' final weeks are well known, as is his intent: to have IRA inmates recognized as political prisoners entitled to rights under the rules of war. [...]

di Peter Travers, articolo completo (2402 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Rolling Stone 19 marzo 2009