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Article: `Michael Collins': Irish war and peace Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson give revolutionary's tale power, passion, poetry
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 25, 1996
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MICHAEL COLLINS
Directed and written by: Neil Jordan
Starring: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia
Roberts
At: Nickelodeon, suburbs
Rated: R
How can you call "Michael Collins" a historical epic when the
Irish history it depicts still erupts daily eight decades later?
It's history trudging through the years to current events, through a
deep rut filled with blood. Neil Jordan's film is grand, handsome
and stirring, as rich and sweeping as David Lean's "Lawrence of
Arabia" or "Dr. Zhivago." With an almost perverse beauty, it
clarifies the roots of the Irish struggle as it veers from an
anticolonial revolt against the British Empire into fratricidal civil
war. The figures ...