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Bobby Sands’ 1981 hunger strike and ‘dirty protest’ in the Maze prison, Northern Island, is the subject matter of Hunger, which won its director the Golden Camera award at Cannes in 2008. McQueen, a Turner Prize winner in 1999, depicts Sands’ quest for political prisoner status using highly sophisticated and beautiful imagery. The film is not a conventional political film, arguably not political at all. Michael Fassbender’s portrayal of Sands is magnificent. “Hunger is a work of bold artistic invention; at the very least, its must-see status is inviolable” - Jonathan Romney, Independent on Sunday. (Cert 15)
Dir: Steve McQueen 90 mins UK/Ireland 2008