Film
Dunkirk
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 106 mins
A quality blockbuster that isn’t a sequel, a remake or another bloody comicbook adaptation. The great Christopher Nolan‘s Oscar winning follow up to Interstellar does WWII in typically distinctive style. Indeed, he’s been adamant that his account of the Operation Dynamo evacuation of Dunkirk is not a war movie but a suspense thriller about survival told from three perspectives – land, sea and air. His film has very little dialogue, since he had no interest in exploring his characters’ backstories, being concerned solely with what will become of them.
To emphasise the youth and inexperience of the soldiers involved, he recruited the virtually unknown Fionn Whitehead to take the lead role alongside, erm, Harry Styles of One Direction. The supporting cast includes such old stagers as Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, regular collaborator Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy – who played the inaudible Bane in Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Go here for our full review.
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