Sunday 12 January 2020

1917

This manages to power through what is a fairly simple narrative (two guys are sent on a mission to get a message to the front line, and we follow them across various encounters on the way) with a lot of bravura filmmaking as it gives the impression of being shot in virtually real time with no apparent cuts.  And moment to moment it's pretty gripping (particularly the almost surreal-looking french town sequence) - though I don't think there's really a lot of depth to the characters, so much as just "people we just happen to follow" - even the various well known actors who show up to meet our heroes along the way don't really get a lot to do (the only one who, for me, really lands is Andrew Scott early on as a particularly disillusioned Lieutenant). It's a solid movie to experience in a theatre, I just don't know that it'll survive home viewing particularly.

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