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Director:
Paul Greengrass
Writer: Paul Greengrass
Starring: James Nesbitt,
Alan Gildea
Awards: Berlin Film
Festival, Golden Berlin Bear
Sundance Film Festival, Audience
award
May
29, 21.00
June 1, 12.30 |
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Bloody Sunday
2002
The
day a nation remembered
Immortalised by U2 in their song “Sunday, Bloody
Sunday”, the events of
January 30, 1972
when British soldiers killed 13 people taking
part in a protest march, marks an important
turning point in Northern Ireland’s history.
Paul Greengrass depicts these events in an
overwhelming, extraordinarily powerful film,
launching his stellar career as a film maker
which saw him go on to direct UNITED 93 and THE
BOURNE SUPREMACY.
Painstaking research has gone into recreating
for the audience the reality and immediacy of
what happened over a 24-hour period, focusing on
two individuals - a local politician who tries
to control an unmanageable situation and a
British army Major who heads up the heavily
armed troop of commandos.
The tension is palpable
and the brutality is immediate. It is tragedy in
its rawest form: bloody chaos. The film exudes a
universality that applies to any conflict that
provokes people to kill in the name of
nationalism. |
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