English writer-director Paul Greengrass's unnervingly realistic recreation of the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacre of 13 unarmed Irish-Catholic civilians during a civil-rights demonstration on the riot-scarred streets of Derry, Northern Ireland, has been rightfully compared to Gillo Pontecorvo's classic THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1965). Greengrass uses a similarly breathless, semi-documentary style that could be mistaken for reality; he also boldly courts controversy with an account that's clearly at odds with the "official story" based on the British army's version of events. Organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association to protest the internment of hundreds o...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins