Nous étions tous des noms d'arbres

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Nous étions tous des noms d'arbres (1983)

The events of the Troubles are everyday happenings for the young people of the Derry Community Workshop, an alternative school for learning manual trades, which has the specificity of welcom... Read allThe events of the Troubles are everyday happenings for the young people of the Derry Community Workshop, an alternative school for learning manual trades, which has the specificity of welcoming Protestants and Catholics.The lessons and debates are sometimes chaotic but always con... Read allThe events of the Troubles are everyday happenings for the young people of the Derry Community Workshop, an alternative school for learning manual trades, which has the specificity of welcoming Protestants and Catholics.The lessons and debates are sometimes chaotic but always constructive.One day an English soldier is killed and the security forces suspect the Worksho... Read all

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The troubles of Northern Island laid bare in this insightful film.

One of the those minor forgotten gems of cinema. Uneven and with a non-professional cast of mostly teenagers, has there ever been a more complex and insightful portrait of 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland. The death of a British soldier is treated with reverence, and the film goes in deep to look at cultural difference behind the conflict, using allegory to shine a light on the situation. Possibly started out as a community development theater piece it was a minor underground hit in Australia in the early 1980s. A good example of complex intelligent filmmaking that uses a complex idea of form to tell its story that packs a punch.

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Mr. Lafferty: In the old days, the letters of the alphabet were names of trees. Derry was one. That meant a grove of oak trees. Then they changed Derry to Londonderry. And instead of the name of a tree, we have become a meaningless phrase.