Few could have anticipated then how good a shoot The Wind That Shakes The Barley would turn out to be. Paul Laverty, right, with actor Cillian Murphy and producer Rebecca O'Brien at the Cannes Film Festival for a screening of The Wind That Shakes The Barley. It was really about the local accents, the local voices, the local landscapes that Ken Loach works so brilliantly with. Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney in a scene from The Wind That Shakes The Barley. As The Wind That Shakes The Barley turns 20, Laverty says how Irish audiences responded to the film mattered greatly to him.