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I am SO EXCITED for this.
Love Saoirse, love evacuee WW2 stories.
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I am SO EXCITED for this.
Love Saoirse, love evacuee WW2 stories.
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I saw this at the cinema, mostly just because it was this week's Mubi Plus film, and I'm so glad I did.
I found the story fully engaging, and I loved how much ground it covered because it allowed us to see so much of London at just a massively fascinating time. And good fucking lord at the moment where the little boy got smashed to death by a train
Terrific!
And the casting was inspired. It was glorious to see Kathy Burke again, and then I was aghast to discover in the credits that the two actors I recognised but couldn't quite place were Benjamin Clementine and Paul Weller (?)
It's probs an 8 but I've given it a 9 for the decadent production values.
I found the story fully engaging, and I loved how much ground it covered because it allowed us to see so much of London at just a massively fascinating time. And good fucking lord at the moment where the little boy got smashed to death by a train
Terrific! And the casting was inspired. It was glorious to see Kathy Burke again, and then I was aghast to discover in the credits that the two actors I recognised but couldn't quite place were Benjamin Clementine and Paul Weller (?)
It's probs an 8 but I've given it a 9 for the decadent production values.
God, this was AWFUL. It’s like the writers had a checklist of every dramatically traumatic moment possible and decided, 'Yeah, let’s cram ALL of it in!' Every piece of low-hanging fruit got yanked off the trauma tree. And just when you think, 'Surely, they’ll let us breathe now' - BOOM! poor old grandpa gets blown up for the grand finale. 
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This is is being lined up for today’s matinee fillum. Mr jyxz just asked me what it was about 
Anyway - now I’m torn between the above contrasting reviews.
Anyway - now I’m torn between the above contrasting reviews.
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Well, I thought it was well done. Not perfect and I can see the criticisms, but the drama and sense of peril was all there. I’m just pleased McQueen may have possibly moved on from that previous style of his that always used to rub me the wrong way.
His films are so wildly different, I don't think I could settle on what his style is.
Of the feature films, Hunger and especially the brilliant Widows are the absolute standouts. Parts of the Small Axe TV show are brilliant, others I found average. I loved the Occupied City documentary he did, but it can feel quite impenetrable.
Of the feature films, Hunger and especially the brilliant Widows are the absolute standouts. Parts of the Small Axe TV show are brilliant, others I found average. I loved the Occupied City documentary he did, but it can feel quite impenetrable.
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Starting from Hunger, what I call “the sweeping scene”. He repeated it multiple times.
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If I remember Small Axe correctly, I loved Education and Alex Wheatle, and admired the rest but ultimately found them quite boring. Have played Janet Kay's Silly Games quite a lot after hearing it in Lovers Rock though.
This is the first of his films at the cinema I've properly enjoyed.
This is the first of his films at the cinema I've properly enjoyed.