Ken Loach, The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Called "the Dean of Independent Filmmakers," Ken Loach's 40-year career hits a critically acknowledged high point with The Wind That Shakes the Barley. For the social realist and politically committed filmmaker, this is his first film to be set in the past - the post WWI struggle for Irish independence -, the first to win the Palme D'Or at Cannes, and the first with an international star: Irish actor Cillian Murphy (from Batman Begins and Redeye, interviewed on Beyond the Subtitles #115). Loach laughs about taking heat from the right wing, why Kes stands as his modern classic and where that Barley title originates (19 minutes).

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