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Omagh

  • Película de TV
  • 2004
  • PG-13
  • 1h 46min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
7,2/10
1,8 mil
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Omagh (2004)
Drama

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaAn examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

  • Dirección
    • Pete Travis
  • Guión
    • Paul Greengrass
    • Guy Hibbert
  • Reparto principal
    • Gerard McSorley
    • Michèle Forbes
    • Brenda Fricker
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  • PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
    7,2/10
    1,8 mil
    TU PUNTUACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Pete Travis
    • Guión
      • Paul Greengrass
      • Guy Hibbert
    • Reparto principal
      • Gerard McSorley
      • Michèle Forbes
      • Brenda Fricker
    • 24Reseñas de usuarios
    • 23Reseñas de críticos
  • Ver la información de la producción en IMDbPro
  • Ver la información de la producción en IMDbPro
    • Ganó 1 premio BAFTA
      • 13 premios y 10 nominaciones en total

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    Gerard McSorley
    Gerard McSorley
    • Michael Gallagher
    Michèle Forbes
    Michèle Forbes
    • Patsy Gallagher
    • (as Michele Forbes)
    Brenda Fricker
    Brenda Fricker
    • Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan
    Stuart Graham
    Stuart Graham
    • Victor Barker
    Peter Ballance
    • Mark Breslin
    • (as Peter Balance)
    Pauline Hutton
    Pauline Hutton
    • Sharon Gallagher
    Fiona Glascott
    Fiona Glascott
    • Cathy Gallagher
    Kathy Kiera Clarke
    Kathy Kiera Clarke
    • Elizabeth Gibson
    Clare Connor
    • Caroline Gibson
    Gerard Crossan
    • Hugh
    Ian McElhinney
    Ian McElhinney
    • Stanley McCombe
    Sarah Gilbert
    • Patricia McLaughlin
    Alan Devlin
    • Laurence Rush
    Frances Quinn
    • Marion Radford
    Tara Lynne O'Neill
    • Carol Radford
    Billy Clarke
    • Kevin Skelton
    Frankie McCafferty
    Frankie McCafferty
    • Godfrey Wilson
    Karen Rohleder
    • Ann Wilson
    • Dirección
      • Pete Travis
    • Guión
      • Paul Greengrass
      • Guy Hibbert
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    Oct

    A new face every two minutes

    The most salient fact about this TV movie is that its two hours' running time includes 65 speaking parts. Torn between focusing on one or two human stories behind Northern Ireland's worst terrorist outrage and giving a panorama of the politics that led to it, the production settles for wheeling on almost every Ulster character actor you ever saw and others besides. Even an Oscar winner, Brenda Fricker, is in there somewhere, so she is: blink and you'll miss her.

    This jittery kaleidoscope creates confusion and dissipates sympathy; as soon as we begin to dig into one victim's backstory, we're off at another tangent. Neither good art nor good commerce, such worthy exercises in the reconstruction of recent events fall between the stools of documentary and drama.

    Like many, "Omagh" is shot in "swivelvision" in the common but quite mistaken belief that this makes it look more "real"-- as though documentarists had never learned to use Steadicam. It tiptoes delicately through the minefield of libel that bedevils moveimakers trying to portray unresolved situations: a title at the end tells us that the suspected bombers all deny involvement, so there is no catharsis to be obtained by showing them going to jail. Making us feel sorry for the bereaved is easy meat; but like many an American "issue" movie, all this one will generate in viewers outside Northern Ireland is smug relief at being hors de combat.
    6Libretio

    Respectful, dignified, devastating

    OMAGH

    Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

    Sound format: Dolby Digital

    Unlike its voracious American counterpart, British TV is generally reticent about dramatizing true-life crimes and atrocities, fearful of causing public offence and generating protest in self-righteous tabloid newspapers. Writer-director Paul Greengrass (THE BOURNE SUPREMACY) has been negotiating this delicate minefield since 1994, producing some of the most compelling works in British TV history (including "Bloody Sunday" and THE MURDER OF STEPHEN LAWRENCE). And while he didn't direct OMAGH - an account of the search for justice following the Real IRA car bomb which exploded in the Irish market town of Omagh in August 1998 - his style is writ large over the entire production. Co-written by Greengrass and Guy Hibbert (SHOT THROUGH THE HEART), the film was directed by Pete Travis, a relative newcomer who distinguished himself in 2003 with his acclaimed TV drama HENRY VIII.

    OMAGH focuses on Michael Gallagher (veteran actor Gerard McSorley), a quiet mechanic thrust into the media spotlight following his decision to pursue the shadowy figures who murdered his 21 year old son Aiden (along with so many others) on that dreadful afternoon. From the outset, the movie unspools with documentary precision, using hand-held cameras to enhance the sense of realism: The principal 'characters' are introduced in piecemeal fashion, via quick cuts from one scene to the next, but there's very little specific dialogue in the build-up to the explosion, in which 29 people died and hundreds were injured (primarily because the terrorist's vaguely worded tip-off led police to guide people directly into the bomb's immediate orbit), and the aftermath is reproduced in vivid detail. These difficult scenes are as sordid as they are necessary - the victims' relatives insisted on it - and the widespread grief which followed this appalling incident is depicted through the experiences of the remaining Gallagher family. McSorley's subsequent quest for justice leads him into contact with a wide variety of players, everyone from low-level police informants to some of Ireland's most prominent figures, only to find himself stonewalled by the politics of compromise. To date, no one has been tried for the Omagh bombing.

    Respectful, honest and unemotional, this painful reminder of recent history simply records events as they occurred, without affectation or sensationalism. The acting is *peerless*, with McSorley a quiet tower of strength in the central role, matched every step of the way by Michèle Forbes as his distraught wife, and Brenda Fricker as police ombudsman Nuala O'Loan whose investigation into the Omagh inquiry uncovered a catalogue of errors and deceit. Campaigning television at its very best.
    9JonSnowsMother

    Heartbreaking and wonderful drama

    I am to young to remember the Omagh bombing but the film made you feel you were really their at the bombing and after.

    The movie is based on a real event when 29 innocent people died by a car bomb planted by the real I.R.A (Irish Republican Army) The film focuses on Michael Gallagher and his family who lost there 19 year old son Aiden in the bombing. This results in the rest of the family trying to fit in without Aiden but fail. They then join a support group hoping to bring the I.R.A to justice.

    Paul Greengrass(United 93,The Bourne Ultimatum) gives a fantastic script and Pete Travis does fantastic work in the direction and turns it into a movie that has you reaching for your handkerchiefs.

    It is very rare to see a cheap film with a small and unknown cast and even an unknown director and turn it into a fascinating and wonderful drama that couldn't be topped no matter how much Hollywood stars or money would be put in it was a rare but special treat with almost no mistakes. Omagh will be very hard to find in a DVD shop but once you see it all that work will be worth it.
    MatBrewster

    Intense

    On August 15, 1998, a car bomb exploded in Omagh, Northern Ireland killing 29 people and injuring some 220 others. It was the single worst incident in Northern Ireland in over 30 years. In 2004 director Pete Travis filmed a movie about the atrocity and the subsequent investigation. It is a relentless, brutal film that never allows the viewer an emotional sigh of fresh air. What strikes me most about the film, now, is not the quality of the film, which is quite good actually, but that I had never before heard of this event.

    Admittedly, I am not the most knowledgeable lad when it comes to current events. When I had a television I would catch one of the morning news shows, and maybe a few minutes of CNN or Fox News just before bed. While in the car I tune into NPR, I receive e-mails from the Washington Post and generally spend a few moments checking the various news websites. I'm not obsessive about the news, I try to stay mildly informed, but I certainly don't spend every waking moment turning my thoughts to the state of the world. Yet, here is huge terrorist attack, followed by a scandalous investigation with a potential cover up behind it, and I've never heard a word about it.

    I am sure the news channels mentioned something about it shortly after the bombing. It was probably a short little blurb with a death count. It's got all the elements they love: terrorists, explosions, murder, and scandal. But, it didn't happen in America, and European drama doesn't have the ratings pull as say something stateside, say Michael Jackson's latest shenanigans. Especially when these events happened on some obscure country like Northern Ireland. Who knew the North of Ireland was a separate country anyway? In the US we have cable networks that run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. There is CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, not to mention specialty networks like CourtTV, and of course non news specific networks that still employ daily news shows. Yet with all of these outlets, American audiences are still inundated with the same stories over and over again. It is a big world, with a lot of important events happening, but instead of covering these events, they rehash the current scandal of the week, and trial of the century. How did Bill Clinton's hummer overshadow the murder of 29 people? How did Mark McGuire's record breaking home run sprint become more important than terrorist activity? Certainly the network news shows give us what we want. Had we received a 3 hour special report on the Omagh bombing I'm sure many of us would have clicked over to Seinfeld reruns. In the end, I'm not scholar enough, nor have the time, to lay out why virtually no one I know has heard of Omagh before. This is a movie review after all. Yet, as I think about the film I can't help but feel the sting of guilt. When I hear the chattering other others complaining that Americans are full of ego, and don't have the slightest idea about the world, I must hold my head low, and sigh.

    The film itself is shot like a documentary, Dogme95 style. It uses hand held cameras, utilizes only natural lighting and there is nary a digital effect to be seen. For 106 minutes it never lets go of its punishing, merciless hold on your emotions. There is no comic relief, no juncture in which to catch your breath and get away from it all. The film brings you in close, lets you feel the tension, suffocate in the terror. It doesn't want you to enjoy what you see. This is not a film that allows the audience to distance themselves from the actions on the screen, nor their very lives. It is a film that cries out, carrying the voices of all humanity that suffers, that feel injustice.

    Though it takes a few moments to adjust to its visual style, the hand held camera work becomes an effective means to bring the audience right into the emotional impact of the film. It looses a little steam in the second half when the main character, Michael Gallagher (Gerard McSorley), a father of one of the victims, begins to lose his way in bringing the terrorist to justice. However, though some headway is lost, the film continues to pack a hard emotional punch.

    I am glad that films like Omagh are being made. Though it is a film that will never see a theatre screen in America, it may find its way onto a shelf in the local movie rental house. It is here, that countless Americans may go looking for something a little different, something that they haven't seen. And it is here that they might learn a little about the world around them.

    Like this review? Go to www.midnitcafe.blogspot.com for more.
    10themcquade

    Heartbreaking, brilliant film making

    A deeply moving account of the 1998 bombing of Omagh by the Real IRA and its aftermath. The film focuses on the struggle of the families of the victims to obtain justice in the face of puzzling official indifference.

    Gerard McSorley's performance as Michael Gallagher, the chairman of the families group, is extraordinary. It is reminiscent in its intensity and emotional range of Jack Lemmon in Missing. McSorley deserves to win every award for which he is eligible and it is unlikely that a better performance will be seen on film this year.

    When so much film making glorifies those who perpetrate slaughter across the world this film demonstrates the real heroism of victims of violence coming to terms with grief, rebuilding their lives and refusing to be ignored by the powerful.

    Superb.

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      The song "Broken Things" which was sung by Julie Miller at the end of the film, was performed at the memorial service for the Omagh bomb victims by local singer Juliet Turner.
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      Michael Gallagher: There's Catholics in this room, and Protestants, and Mormons - Marion's here - and some of us believe in God, and now maybe some of us have no God.

      Michael Gallagher: But I can tell you this, we're not going to get anywhere unless we do it together. That's the truth of the matter.

      [crowd: Here, here]

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 22 de mayo de 2004 (Irlanda)
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      • Irlanda
      • Reino Unido
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    • Localizaciones del rodaje
      • Dublin, County Dublin, Irlanda
    • Empresas productoras
      • Tiger Aspect Productions
      • Hell's Kitchen International
      • Channel 4 Television Corporation
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      1 hora 46 minutos
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      • 1.78 : 1

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