Bloody Sunday

Production year: 2002

Drama R   Running time: 1:50 

IMDB rating:   7.7     Aspect: Wide;  Languages: English;  Subtitles: English;  Audio: DD 5.1

Winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Audience Award, writer-director Paul Greengrass' "magnetic and impassioned"* drama is a "staggering re-creation"** of the events of Sunday, January 30th, 1972 when British troops clashed with unarmed protestors in Derry, Northern Ireland. With breathtaking verisimilitude, Bloody Sunday posits an immediate, you-are-there re-creation of Ireland's most controversial contemporary tragedy. From dusk to dawn, the events of January 30, 1972, are presented in convincing veritÈ fashion; by employing rapid fade-to-black transitions, director Paul Greengrass approaches two perspectives with equal anticipation of potential disaster, based on facts as reported in Don Mullan's politically influential book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday. Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) is, ironically, a Protestant Member of Parliament, leading a peaceful but tensely expectant civil rights march through the Catholic "bogside" of the city of Derry, in protest of the British practice of internment without trial. He watches in horror as his throng of unarmed protesters splinters against British paramilitaries who impulsively open fire. No question where Greengrass's sympathies lie (heard but not seen, the first shots are British), but despite charges of inaccuracy and bias, Bloody Sunday will likely stand as the definitive cinematic representation of that horrible day when deadly confusion reigned supreme.

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Features

Audio commentary
Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
Interviews
Trailers/TV spots

Special features

Interview with politician Paul Greengrass, actor James Nesbitt and producer Mark Redhead
Audio Commentary With Paul Greengrass and James Nesbitt
Audio Commentary With Co-Producer Don Mullan
Bloody Sunday: Ivan Cooper Remembers
Bloody Sunday: History Retold
Q&A at the Curzon Cinema with Paul Greengrass and James Nesbitt
Interview featurette with cast and crew
On Location
Ivan and Jimmy
Bloody Sunday