'Wind' Paints Black-and-White Picture of Ireland's Tragic History

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Solid performances, breathtaking photography and an uncommonly clever approach to an oft-told tale aren't enough to save The Wind That Shakes the Barley from its ham-fisted politics.

The movie is the story of Ireland's fight to free itself from British rule and the growing pains of a new republic not quite clear on its sovereign status. Wind stars the always-appealing Cillian Murphy as Damien, a would-be doctor who forgoes his medical education to join one of the Irish Republican Army's flying columns in the 1920s.

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'Wind' Paints Black-and-White Picture of Ireland's Tragic History

A political polemic as well as a character piece, Wind uses Damien, with mixed results, as a soundi...

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