“The Wind that Shakes the Barley,” Ken Loach's award-winning film about civil war in 1920s Ireland, comes to the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium tonight at 7 p.m. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's historical advisor, Professor Donal O' Driscoll of University College, Cork, Ireland.
A surprise winner of the Palme d'Or honors at last year's Cannes Film Festival, the film stars Cillian Murphy (“28 Days Later,” “Red Eye”) as a young medical student who decides to join the IRA to fight for Irish independence.
The movie takes its name from an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836-1883), a Limerick-born poet and professor of English literature.
“The Wind that Shakes the Barley” has yet to open in the United States, but it is expected to hit independent movie theaters across the country in March.