Black '47
It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his estranged family.
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1982, Northern Ireland, UK
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September 27, 2018
Black 47 is a gripping and unusual drama none the less.
February 17, 2018
Black 47 feels more like a small screen misfire than the grand cinematic epic that this rich story deserves.
September 27, 2018
It's all deeply silly stuff, but within an eerily profound milieu.
September 26, 2018
The film's mythic force is underlined by its visual style.
September 27, 2018
It was bold and it was well done... accessible and entertaining in that kind of grim way.
September 27, 2018
Since this is a rare feature film to treat the Irish famine, it's a little odd that it tilts so heavily toward a genre exercise. But as a genre exercise, it's pretty potent.
February 17, 2018
Daly's restrained, pared-down style is the opposite of flashy exploitation cinema, but watching these bastions of lethally repressive British rule get some overdue comeuppance is similarly stirring.
September 27, 2018
Daly's film isn't subtle, but as a genre film it has a certain pulpy intensity that keeps it rattling along.
September 26, 2018
Black 47somehow falls short of one's cinematic expectations in providing justice to a story that demands it.
September 27, 2018
A powerful and poignant film.
September 26, 2018
The story glums along earnestly for 100 minutes that seem, and possibly were, 100 days.
February 16, 2018
By the time it ends on a note of intimate ambiguity, it's hard not to wish that Black 47 had expressed more shades of gray.
