Hunger
film by McQueen [2008]
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discussed in biography
- In Steve McQueen: Films
…his first feature-length commercial film, Hunger (winner of the Cannes film festival’s Caméra d’Or). Using long takes, claustrophobic camera angles, and much human silence, the film chillingly tells the story of the last days of the Irish nationalist Bobby Sands (played by Michael Fassbender), who undertook a hunger strike at…
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Fassbender
- In Michael Fassbender: Career
…him in the 2008 movie Hunger. However, McQueen was not impressed with him at first. “When he came in to audition in 2007, I thought, ‘Who is this guy?’ He almost seemed like he couldn’t be bothered,” McQueen told The Hollywood Reporter in 2012. “What I didn’t know was all…
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