Movie Review: Arracht pulls no punches about the suffering experienced during the Great Hunger

"...a fabulous evocation of an existence as grim and unforgiving as the bleak Connemara landscape..."
Movie Review: Arracht pulls no punches about the suffering experienced during the Great Hunger

Arracht: "a fabulous evocation of an existence as grim and unforgiving as the bleak Connemara landscape"

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It seems perverse to say that writer-director Tom Sullivan has made a beautiful film about the Famine, but Arracht (12A) really is an exquisite piece of work.

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