Dunkirk
Director - Christopher Nolan
Writer - Christopher Nolan
Starring - Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Tom Glynn-Carney, Harry Styles
The evacuation of the British and French armies from the
beaches of Dunkirk in the spring of 1940 is seen as a major turning point in
World War II with a vast majority of the 400,000 men stranded on the beaches
saved from the approaching German armies. Called a "miracle of
deliverance" by British PM Winston Churchill these events, despite their
historical importance, had not been fully realized in film before now. It is
easy to see why this is. This is as uncinematic as war stories go. There is no
battle. The action is simply a growing sense of dread on the beach with the
climax being hundreds of thousands of men being ferried off to England. To
present the events of Dunkirk Christopher Nolan delved into his bag of
directorial tricks and brought out his old standby, meddling of the
chronological order to craft his newest masterpiece.
