Black '47
The level on which it works is primal-and frighteningly effective.
Black '47
Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad. He abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family.
Genre
Action,
Drama
Runtime
96
Language
English
Director
Lance Daly
Cast
Hugo Weaving,
James Frecheville,
Stephen Rea,
Freddie Fox,
Barry Keoghan,
Moe Dunford,
Jim Broadbent
FEATURED REVIEW
Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
Irish film-maker Lance Daly has taken on the great famine of the 19th century, and its worst year, the “Black ’47”, drawing from it an intestine-snappingly brutal movie that you could call revenge horror, or revenge western. Revenge something, anyway. And this is probably the generic result of ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 10.05.18 - 10.11.18
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