Made three years before Raining Stones, the film that made him famous, Hidden Agenda already includes most of the filmmaker's favorite themes, starting with his desire to use fiction as a painting of the social and political reality of his country (here, British violence against the Irish resistance in the early 1980s).
Back to Ireland
A tense and well-documented film, actors of astonishing accuracy… we can try the review from March 15 thanks to the Blu-Ray/DVD combo published by Rimini Editions.
As a bonus, interviews with Agnès Blandeau, Lecturer in English at the University of Nantes, Ken Loach (RTBF archive) and Frances McDormand (RTBF archive).
