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TAKING SIDES.(Movie review)

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As any aisle-hugging aesthete will tell you, the look, feel, and form of a film are just as important as its "themes." Indeed, the thematic material of a movie can no more easily be separated from the cinematic means that produce it than melodies can be separated from notes. Still, critics do it. Readers, we tell ourselves, have the right to know what a movie is ostensibly about. So I would have to say that Ken Loach's wonderful "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May, is about a savage little corner of the Irish rebellion against the British in the years 1920 to 1922; that, more ...

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