Two Irish brothers are torn apart by the anti-Brit rebellion of the '20s in "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," a film by helmer Ken Loach in which the human drama increasingly gets lost in the ...

A Ken Loach film about the British in Ireland always has the potential for controversy, but his historical drama "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is unlikely to inflame passions on either side.

Review: “The Wind That Shakes the Barley ... We open the film with a group of Irishmen being harassed by British soldiers for no apparent reason other then they can. The end result begins to fester a ...

The young men move about the muddied hillside engaging in a friendly afternoon game of that national pastime known as hurling. On their way home, they are accosted by a platoon of "Black and Tans ...

It won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and was compared sight unseen to “Mein Kampf” by one right-wing British newspaper columnist. Yet Ken Loach’s IRA drama “The Wind that Shakes the Barley ...

The young men move about the muddied hillside engaging in a friendly afternoon game of that national pastime known as hurling. On their way home, they are accosted by a platoon of "Black and Tans ...

Premonition; The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Hosted by Joe Morgenstern Mar. 16, 2007 Entertainment. Listen 4 min MORE Anyone who's seen the awful trailer for Premonition is bound to have premonitions ...

The Wind That Shakes The Barley values historical accuracy and focuses on the effects of war on society. Cillian Murphy's ...

Ken Loach’s tragic, beautiful film takes its poetic name from a 19th-century Irish song by Robert Dwyer Joyce. Its lyrics include these: ” ‘Twas hard for mournful words to frame / To break ...

The first unassailably great film of 2007, ... The Wind That Shakes The Barley One of the year's best movies, full of passionate intensity. By N.P. Thompson. May 22, 2007 at 5:00 pm PDT.

Movie criticUnless you're named Brad or Angelina, chances are you probably got snubbed -- yet again -- when the Cannes Film Festival sent out its invitations this year. But starting tonight ...