{"id":574899,"date":"2023-05-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cannes-flashback-steve-mcqueen-debuted-hunger-to-croisette-glory\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:00:00","slug":"cannes-flashback-steve-mcqueen-debuted-hunger-to-croisette-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cannes-flashback-steve-mcqueen-debuted-hunger-to-croisette-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cannes Flashback: Steve McQueen Debuted \u2018Hunger\u2019 to Croisette Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Steve McQueen never intended to become a director. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be a filmmaker,\u201d the British visual artist told\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter\u00a0<\/em>in November 2013. \u201cWhat led me into wanting to make a film was Bobby Sands.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n Sands, a member of Northern Ireland\u2019s IRA who led fellow prisoners in Belfast on a hunger strike in 1981, was the inspiration for McQueen\u2019s directorial debut,\u00a0Hunger<\/em>. The film opened Cannes\u2019 Un Certain Regard section in 2008 and, according to the U.K.\u2019s\u00a0Guardian<\/em>, \u201cprompted both app<\/a>lause and walkouts\u201d for its unflinching look at the last days of Sands (played by Michael Fassbender), the brutal treatment of prisoners and their hunger strike and \u201cdirty protest,\u201d which included refusing to bathe and smearing cell walls with feces and blood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n THR<\/em>\u00a0called\u00a0Hunger<\/em>\u00a0\u201cviolent, bleak and depressing\u201d and noted how Fassbender\u2019s performance, for which he went on a 900-calorie-a-day diet of berries, nuts and sardines, shows \u201cthe gruesome effect on a man\u2019s body of completely rejecting nourishment.\u201d Nevertheless, the film earned the Camera d\u2019Or, the fest\u2019s prize for best first feature. <\/p>\n

\n McQueen \u2014 who returns to the Croisette this year with the documentary\u00a0Occupied City<\/em>, about Amsterdam under Nazi control during World War II \u2014 said at the time of\u00a0Hunger<\/em>: \u201cI want to show what it was like to see, hear, smell and touch in the H-Block in 1981. What I want to convey is something you cannot find in books or archives: the ordinary and extraordinary of life in this prison. \u2026 My intention is to provoke debate in the audience, to challenge our own morality through film.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n