A member of Northern Ireland’s IRA, who led fellow prisoners in Belfast on a hunger strike in 1981, was the inspiration for his 2008 directorial debut.
“violent, bleak and depressing” and noted how Fassbender’s performance, for which he went on a 900-calorie-a-day diet of berries, nuts and sardines, shows “the gruesome effect on a man’s body of completely rejecting nourishment.” Nevertheless, the film earned the Camera d’Or, the fest’s prize for best first feature.
, about Amsterdam under Nazi control during World War II — said at the time of : “I want to show what it was like to see, hear, smell and touch in the H-Block in 1981. What I want to convey is something you cannot find in books or archives: the ordinary and extraordinary of life in this prison. … My intention is to provoke debate in the audience, to challenge our own morality through film.”
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