The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Directed by Ken Loach · Cinematography by Barry Ackroyd
127 min64 frames
DramaWar
War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.
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What is The Wind That Shakes the Barley about?
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
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Sampled across 62 frames, the coverage of The Wind That Shakes the Barley leans on medium shots (47% of the sample) and wide compositions (37%). Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd keeps 68% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 71% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 56% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) are #33342b, #525448, #8c8c73, #6e6e56, #484a39, #171612 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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