STOP STIRRING IT ALL UP, MR DAVIES
Nov 9 2008 by Our Correspondent, Wales On Sunday
I COULDN’T believe it when I saw Monmouth Tory MP David Davies on television last week pontificating and complaining about the highly-acclaimed and award-winning film Hunger, and worse – it seemed to me – stirring up controversy about the Welsh Assembly Government.
Just in case you don’t know, Hunger has been directed by Turner prize-winning artist Steve McQueen and the film takes an uncompromising look at the last six weeks in the life of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. Sandra Hebron for Time Out says it’s “a film of outstanding boldness and beauty and a compelling study of people in extreme circumstances resorting to extreme measures. McQueen is to be applauded for a brilliant and uncompromising film”. Read the rest of this entry »
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