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Hunger

2008 · Drama · Steve McQueen · 1h 30m

In the Maze prison in 1981, Republican inmates refuse to wear uniforms or wash, and one of them stops eating. Barely any dialogue, one very long conversation in the middle, and a lot of time in cells.

  • Strongly heavy
  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly slow
  • Clearly intimate

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