an atypical film from Ken Loach, a name usually associated with kitchen-sink dramas about tragedy in the North of England

Land and Freedom is an atypical film from Ken Loach, a name usually associated with kitchen-sink dramas about tragedy in the North of England.

a rare and brilliant film about conflict, one which manages to retain a visceral energy while being emotionally engaging and intellectually challenging

Land and Freedom is a rare and brilliant film about conflict, one which manages to retain a visceral energy while being emotionally engaging and intellectually challenging.

wartime drama with impassioned political debate

** Wednesday Jan. 26th: Land and Freedom - A reflective look at an idealistic young man's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom combines wartime drama with impassioned political debate.

a film - beneath a surface veneer of revolutionary politics that brilliantly constructs a series of spontaneous outbursts of emotion - reaching through spontaneous outbursts's characters and on to spontaneous outbursts's audience

Land and freedom is...a film that brilliantly constructs a series of spontaneous outbursts of emotion - reaching through spontaneous outbursts's characters and on to spontaneous outbursts's audience - beneath a surface veneer of revolutionary politics.

a film about the Spanish Civil War and the split in the left between the side led by the Communist Party and the one led by the Social Democrats, who said that there couldn’t be a socialist revolution, that a socialist revolution must be a bourgeois revolution that leaves power in the hands of the bourgeoisie, the industrialists

Land and Freedom is a film about the Spanish Civil War and the split in the left between the side led by the Communist Party and the one led by the Social Democrats, who said that there couldn’t be a socialist revolution, that a socialist revolution must be a bourgeois revolution that leaves power in the hands of the bourgeoisie, the industrialists.

the story of a young participant in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War

Land and Freedom, based loosely on George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, narrates the story of a young participant in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.

a lot of freedom for exploration

This genre has a lot of freedom for exploration.