Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Jan 20th   
Testament of Youth** (12A)    
(Odeon Colchester)

(GB 2014)

Promising Oxford student Vera Brittain loses most of her loved ones during World War I and becomes a nurse at the Front to connect with them.
A suitable centenary commemoration, a powerful WWI weepie where the camera lovingly craves the young heroes in sensual fashion until the inevitable darkening of the war into the narrative, with some filmic nods to The Big Parade, Gallipoli and Gone with the Wind (the yard full of wounded bodies), without ever unnecessary straying into anti-war cliches.

d: James Kent
s: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harrington, Taron Egerton, Emily Watson, Dominic West, Colin Morgan, Anna Chancellor, Joanna Scalon, Jonathan Bailey, Nicholas Farrell.




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