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Cannes. Hunger.
Published 5/15/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... prison, set during the 'dirty' protests and the second hunger strike of 1981, is offered up by Britain's most prominent entry in the Cannes film festival," writes Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian. ...

Cannes: Jeudi, le 15 Mai
Published 5/16/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... Charlotte Higgins, “A visceral, violent and deeply disturbing vision of life in the Maze prison, set during the “dirty” protests and the second hunger strike of 1981, is offered up by Britain’s most prominent entry in the Cannes film festival……Though the film is even-handed, unjudgmentally following the lives of both inmates and guards, the film will doubtless stir bitter memories of one of the darkest moments in recent British and Northern Irish history.” ...