Hunger

'Hunger' is an endurance test

Life for Irish Republican prisoners during "The Troubles" was grueling, brutal and relentlessly grim. These words also describe British visual artist Steve McQueen's "Hunger," a hard look inside Belfast's Maze Prison and its infamous H-Block around the time of the IRA's 1981 Hunger Strike. McQueen deserves credit for his bold, confident approach to depicting the ordeals of such unyielding inmates as Davey Gillen (Brian Milligan), Gerry Campbell (Liam McMahon) and, most notably, Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). [...]

di Gary Goldstein, articolo completo (1445 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 5 dicembre 2008