Hunger
Saturday, January 31, 2009 @ 9.00 pm
Cert 15
Steve McQueen | UK | 2008 | 96′
This controversial, raw and powerful account of Bobby Sands’ 66 day hunger strike, directed by Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen, caused a sensation at Cannes where it picked up the first time director’s prize, the Camera d’Or. Its centerpiece is an extraordinary 22-minute single shot in which Sands debates the merits of the hunger strike and whether his near-certain death is suicide or martyrdom. Drawing parallels between the treatment of IRA prisoners, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, Hunger is an urgent reminder of an ugly, tragic and dysfunctional period in British and Irish history.
Creodd y ffilm ddadleuol, grymus a chignoeth am streic newyn 66 diwrnod Bobby Sands, wedi ei chyfarwyddo gan yr enillydd Gwobr Turner Steve McQueen, tipyn o gyffro yng Nghannes, lle enillodd y wobr cyfarwyddwr tro cyntaf, sef y Camera d’Or. Mae’r ffilm yn troi o gwmpas un darn rhyfeddol 22 munud, ble gwelwn Sands yn dadlau rhinweddau ei streic newyn ac os taw hunanladdiad neu ferthyrdod yw ei farwolaeth, sy’n debygol iawn. Gan dynnu cymariaethau rhwng triniaeth carcharorion yr IRA, Abu Ghraib a Guantanano, mae Hunger yn ein hatgoffa o gyfnod trasig, annifyr a chamweithredol yn hanes Prydain ac Iwerddon.



