Steve McQueen’s ‘Hunger’ Is A Disturbing Look At Human Suffering

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:27:00 +0000

This review originally ran during the New York Film Festival in 2008. “Hunger” comes out in limited release this Friday on March 20 and has a strong 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. We highly recommend it.
Impressionistic, lyrical and, at times, excruciatingly hard to watch, visual artist Steve McQueen’s (no, not that Steve McQueen) “Hunger,” won the The Caméra d’Or (“Golden Camera”) at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for good reason. It’s an intense and disquieting first film from a filmmaker we must now all watch (the Caméra prize goes to the best first feature).

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NYFF Review: Steve McQueen’s ‘Hunger’ Is A Disturbing Look At Human Suffering

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:13:00 +0000

Impressionistic, lyrical and, at times, excruciatingly hard to watch, Steve McQueen’s “Hunger,” won the The Caméra d’Or (“Golden Camera”) at Cannes for good reason. It’s an intense and disquieting first film from a filmmaker we must now all watch (the Caméra prize goes to the best first feature).

Ostensibly about imprisoned Provisional IRA member Bobby Sands who lend a hunger strike to protest his prison conditions for 66 days before he died in 1981 at the age of 27, “Hunger” eschews most overt political statements about the story and uses it to tell a more personal and intimate chronicle of human suffering and the limits one will go to for a cause they believe in.

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NYFF Review: Steve McQueen’s ‘Hunger’ Is A Disturbing Look At Human Suffering