The Wind That Shakes the Barley

You plan to practice medicine in London of the 1920s. But occupying forces raid the farm of your friends, killing a local. Damien joins his brother in the Irish Republican Army. Loach's film quietly simmers, never letting you settle on one brother's view. It lingers in the silences between them.

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Ken Loach directed The Wind That Shakes the Barley in 2006. See Ken Loach's full filmography, where to start with Ken Loach, or where to go after you've seen everything by Ken Loach.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley was released in 2006 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 127 minutes.