Cinema: Towering portrayal of Sands’ last days

Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen makes his feature debut with the bewildering and unforgettable , the story of the last six weeks of Bobby Sands’s life in Long Kesh prison. Hunger

Hunger opens with the sound of dustbin lids banging off concrete streets, a relentless staccato that only stops when we are introduced to prison officer Raymond Lohan (Stuart Graham) as he sits down to a cooked breakfast. The knuckles gripping his fork ...