Dunkirk (2017)
Country: GB/NL/US/FR
Technical: col/1:1 106m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Aneurin Barnard, Damien Bonnard, Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy
Synopsis:
Three stories intertwine: a young private fights to stay alive; a bereaved father and son pilot a small craft across the Channel to pick up survivors; a trio of Spitfire pilots intercept Luftwaffe attacks on the stricken beach head.
Review:
Resourceful as ever, Nolan transforms what can be a pedestrian trawl through the familiar emotional rollercoaster of near misses and tragic setbacks by loading his narrative dice according to three different time arcs, and then seeing how they fall. The results, a little hard to digest at first, gain in potency as we near the climax of intersection, aided by Zimmer's uncharacteristically recessive musical accompaniment. He proves once again what a master of the grand cinematic flourish he can be, and, on a more comprehensive level, how he can sustain tension unremittingly from start to finish.
Country: GB/NL/US/FR
Technical: col/1:1 106m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Aneurin Barnard, Damien Bonnard, Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy
Synopsis:
Three stories intertwine: a young private fights to stay alive; a bereaved father and son pilot a small craft across the Channel to pick up survivors; a trio of Spitfire pilots intercept Luftwaffe attacks on the stricken beach head.
Review:
Resourceful as ever, Nolan transforms what can be a pedestrian trawl through the familiar emotional rollercoaster of near misses and tragic setbacks by loading his narrative dice according to three different time arcs, and then seeing how they fall. The results, a little hard to digest at first, gain in potency as we near the climax of intersection, aided by Zimmer's uncharacteristically recessive musical accompaniment. He proves once again what a master of the grand cinematic flourish he can be, and, on a more comprehensive level, how he can sustain tension unremittingly from start to finish.
Country: GB/NL/US/FR
Technical: col/1:1 106m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Aneurin Barnard, Damien Bonnard, Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy
Synopsis:
Three stories intertwine: a young private fights to stay alive; a bereaved father and son pilot a small craft across the Channel to pick up survivors; a trio of Spitfire pilots intercept Luftwaffe attacks on the stricken beach head.
Review:
Resourceful as ever, Nolan transforms what can be a pedestrian trawl through the familiar emotional rollercoaster of near misses and tragic setbacks by loading his narrative dice according to three different time arcs, and then seeing how they fall. The results, a little hard to digest at first, gain in potency as we near the climax of intersection, aided by Zimmer's uncharacteristically recessive musical accompaniment. He proves once again what a master of the grand cinematic flourish he can be, and, on a more comprehensive level, how he can sustain tension unremittingly from start to finish.