Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Country: US
Technical: col 170m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon
Synopsis:
On a visit to a Normandy war cemetery with his family, a US veteran of D-Day remembers how he was the subject of an extraordinary rescue mission in the days following the landings.
Review:
A brutal reminder that the Second World War could be quite as horrible as any other, a fact that has tended to be neglected by the movies, give or take Come and See and other notable exceptions. This in fact recalls A Walk in the Sun in its structure, though the approach has been brought up to date. Using bleached colour and much handheld camera, but also subjective action shots of a non-documentary nature, Spielberg hits a new water mark in conveying the confusion and sudden violence of combat; which he depicts as graphically and matter-of-factly as he did the holocaust in Schindler's List.
Country: US
Technical: col 170m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon
Synopsis:
On a visit to a Normandy war cemetery with his family, a US veteran of D-Day remembers how he was the subject of an extraordinary rescue mission in the days following the landings.
Review:
A brutal reminder that the Second World War could be quite as horrible as any other, a fact that has tended to be neglected by the movies, give or take Come and See and other notable exceptions. This in fact recalls A Walk in the Sun in its structure, though the approach has been brought up to date. Using bleached colour and much handheld camera, but also subjective action shots of a non-documentary nature, Spielberg hits a new water mark in conveying the confusion and sudden violence of combat; which he depicts as graphically and matter-of-factly as he did the holocaust in Schindler's List.
Country: US
Technical: col 170m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon
Synopsis:
On a visit to a Normandy war cemetery with his family, a US veteran of D-Day remembers how he was the subject of an extraordinary rescue mission in the days following the landings.
Review:
A brutal reminder that the Second World War could be quite as horrible as any other, a fact that has tended to be neglected by the movies, give or take Come and See and other notable exceptions. This in fact recalls A Walk in the Sun in its structure, though the approach has been brought up to date. Using bleached colour and much handheld camera, but also subjective action shots of a non-documentary nature, Spielberg hits a new water mark in conveying the confusion and sudden violence of combat; which he depicts as graphically and matter-of-factly as he did the holocaust in Schindler's List.