Darkest Hour (2017)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 125m
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn (George VI), Lily James, Stephen Dillane (Halifax), Ronald Pickup (Chamberlain), Samuel West (Eden)
Synopsis:
With the British Expeditionary Force surrounded at Dunkirk and Calais, and members of his own war cabinet hounding him with talk of peace, Churchill's nerve falters, until, by connecting with his typist and the common people, he regains faith in his destiny to unite parliament and the country against the common enemy.
Review:
Wright likes an overhead shot, and perhaps uses one too many here, but this is small beer compared with the triumph of production design (all dark corridors and closeted rooms) and performance that constitutes this film. It is such a compelling tale that it could hardly fail to stir up patriotic feeling, but Oldman anchors it to the psychology and character of one remarkable man for whom 'cometh the hour'.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 125m
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn (George VI), Lily James, Stephen Dillane (Halifax), Ronald Pickup (Chamberlain), Samuel West (Eden)
Synopsis:
With the British Expeditionary Force surrounded at Dunkirk and Calais, and members of his own war cabinet hounding him with talk of peace, Churchill's nerve falters, until, by connecting with his typist and the common people, he regains faith in his destiny to unite parliament and the country against the common enemy.
Review:
Wright likes an overhead shot, and perhaps uses one too many here, but this is small beer compared with the triumph of production design (all dark corridors and closeted rooms) and performance that constitutes this film. It is such a compelling tale that it could hardly fail to stir up patriotic feeling, but Oldman anchors it to the psychology and character of one remarkable man for whom 'cometh the hour'.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 125m
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn (George VI), Lily James, Stephen Dillane (Halifax), Ronald Pickup (Chamberlain), Samuel West (Eden)
Synopsis:
With the British Expeditionary Force surrounded at Dunkirk and Calais, and members of his own war cabinet hounding him with talk of peace, Churchill's nerve falters, until, by connecting with his typist and the common people, he regains faith in his destiny to unite parliament and the country against the common enemy.
Review:
Wright likes an overhead shot, and perhaps uses one too many here, but this is small beer compared with the triumph of production design (all dark corridors and closeted rooms) and performance that constitutes this film. It is such a compelling tale that it could hardly fail to stir up patriotic feeling, but Oldman anchors it to the psychology and character of one remarkable man for whom 'cometh the hour'.