By Cate Marquis
Director Ken Loach delivers a nice, enjoyable little slice of Irish history in Jimmy’S Hall, a tale about one-time rural firebrand who returns to his native County Leitrim, Ireland, a decade after his leadership in the upheaval of the 1921 Irish Troubles forced him to flee. Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) only intends to care for his aging widowed mother Alice (Aileen Henry) and live a quiet life, yet the community almost immediately begins urging him to re-open the now-empty community center, Pearse-Connolly Hall. The elderly local priest, Father Sheridan (Jim Norton), is firming opposed to reopening the hall, fearing it will lead to a loss of Church control. He and the local authorities will do whatever is needed to prevent it.
This well-crafted, well-acted, fact-based film takes a light touch in dealing with the real historical events and social issues of the time. British socialist-realist director Ken Loach...
Director Ken Loach delivers a nice, enjoyable little slice of Irish history in Jimmy’S Hall, a tale about one-time rural firebrand who returns to his native County Leitrim, Ireland, a decade after his leadership in the upheaval of the 1921 Irish Troubles forced him to flee. Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) only intends to care for his aging widowed mother Alice (Aileen Henry) and live a quiet life, yet the community almost immediately begins urging him to re-open the now-empty community center, Pearse-Connolly Hall. The elderly local priest, Father Sheridan (Jim Norton), is firming opposed to reopening the hall, fearing it will lead to a loss of Church control. He and the local authorities will do whatever is needed to prevent it.
This well-crafted, well-acted, fact-based film takes a light touch in dealing with the real historical events and social issues of the time. British socialist-realist director Ken Loach...
- 8/20/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Jimmy’S Hall Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Ken Loach Screenwriter: Paul Laverty Cast: Barry Ward, Francis Magee, Aileen Henry, Simone Kirby, Stella McGirl, Sorcha Fox, Martin Lucey, Mikel Murfi, Shane O’Brien Screened at: Sony, NYC, 4/9/15 Opens: July 1, 2015 Ken Loach, who directed “Jimmy’s Hall,” is no mushy liberal who would waste too much of his valuable time pushing for a 25-cent wage hike for McDonald’s workers—however important that may be to them. Loach is for the working class, but wants nothing less than radical change. Giving workers a few more crumbs from the king’s table does nothing [ Read More ]
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- 6/28/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
After the foolish fondness of The Angel’s Share (2012), Ken Loach is back in familiar ground with the story of Jimmy Gralton, who built a community hall in Ireland’s County Leitrim in the early 1920s that enraged the local haves. Also involved with reinstating an evicted tenant farmer, he fled to America for ten years or so, before returning to do the same thing all over again. The heart of the film is expressed in the words of his mother, at the hearing on his deportation in 1933 (the only Irishman ever to be deported from his country): “Why is an old tin hall so dangerous?”
The first cause of all the trouble is that education is the preserve of the church, and Father Sheridan is royally pissed – the hall is a place (the only place) for local kids to learn drawing, literature, boxing, and so on. The priest...
The first cause of all the trouble is that education is the preserve of the church, and Father Sheridan is royally pissed – the hall is a place (the only place) for local kids to learn drawing, literature, boxing, and so on. The priest...
- 6/20/2015
- by Tom Newth
- SoundOnSight
Director: Ken Loach; Screenwriter: Paul Laverty; Starring: Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott, Jim Norton, Brían F O'Byrne; Running time: 109 mins; Certificate: 12A
Dancing is the purest expression of freedom in Jimmy's Hall, the true story of activist Jimmy Gralton as seen through the lens of Ken Loach. He initially claimed this would be his last feature film (although that appears not to be the case now), tying off a thread that runs through an impressive body of work, from Kes (1969) all the way through his canon on the Irish troubles, dealing in the quest for liberty and what it costs to the individual.
As usual, Paul Laverty provides the script, this time focussed on the internal divisions that afflict Ireland after the Anglo-Irish ceasefire in 1921, neatly visualised at a crossroads in rural County Leitrim. Barry Ward stands firm as Jimmy (vaguely reminiscent of Aiden Gillen, but a little more...
Dancing is the purest expression of freedom in Jimmy's Hall, the true story of activist Jimmy Gralton as seen through the lens of Ken Loach. He initially claimed this would be his last feature film (although that appears not to be the case now), tying off a thread that runs through an impressive body of work, from Kes (1969) all the way through his canon on the Irish troubles, dealing in the quest for liberty and what it costs to the individual.
As usual, Paul Laverty provides the script, this time focussed on the internal divisions that afflict Ireland after the Anglo-Irish ceasefire in 1921, neatly visualised at a crossroads in rural County Leitrim. Barry Ward stands firm as Jimmy (vaguely reminiscent of Aiden Gillen, but a little more...
- 5/26/2014
- Digital Spy
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