{"id":655,"date":"2014-09-22T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T23:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2016-07-02T04:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T04:24:41","slug":"a-nightingale-falling-film-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-nightingale-falling-film-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Nightingale Falling&#8221; &#8211; Film Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I dont do many film reviews, but as this one is shot local in Offaly&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net\/hprofile-ak-xpa1\/v\/t1.0-1\/c9.0.160.160\/p160x160\/10576990_337082143113652_5490091995761944322_n.jpg?oh=5787df2bfce494a7fab441a1e6355890&amp;oe=54BF6337&amp;__gda__=1418175689_5c369bfe5b2fd0b9425c34a8c13fe8df\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/>&#8220;The Wind That Shakes The Barley&#8221; for the Anglo Irish community, and thats not a bad thing&#8230; sibling rivalry, a four way love quadrangel, two suffering unrequited love, the quandry of an Anglo family in a rebel area, where the Tans are active, the conflict of christian duty to a wounded soldier without being loyal as such to the state he represents, and the danger from an element among the rebels who resent them regardless&#8230;<br \/>\nBrilliant plot, fantastic acting, neutral on the political issue, and second to non cinematography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Nightingale Falling - In Cinemas Sept 12th Official Trailer (Mixed Bag Media) HD\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E4wnFWDhUpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And filmed in North Offaly and Westmeath&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A must see. It will be an Irish classic in time.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ANightingaleFalling\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ANightingaleFalling<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dont do many film reviews, but as this one is shot local in Offaly&#8230; &#8220;The Wind That Shakes The Barley&#8221; for the Anglo Irish community, and thats not a bad thing&#8230; sibling rivalry, a four way love quadrangel, two suffering unrequited love, the quandry of an Anglo family in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[920,919,37],"tags":[249,921,922,923,733],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critic","category-film","category-irish-war-of-independence-1919-1921","tag-anglo-irish","tag-film-2","tag-love-story","tag-movie-review","tag-short-film","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-az","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":601,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/streets-of-shame-in-2014-but-banagher-horse-fair-prevails\/","url_meta":{"origin":655,"position":0},"title":"Streets of Shame in 2014 &#8211; But Banagher Horse Fair Prevails","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It was a scene of shame for the Garda\u00ed in Banagher this past weekend, as on the the Saturday, en force they arrived, with Revenue men and Dept. of Agriculture personnel and turned away visiting people from Banagher, telling them that there was no horse fair. 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