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Film 2017 IMDb 7.8 /10

Three timelines converge on a beach in 1940. Directed by Christopher Nolan, released 2017.

Plot

Four hundred thousand Allied soldiers are trapped on the French coast waiting for evacuation. The film follows a week on the mole, a day at sea aboard a requisitioned pleasure boat, and an hour in a Spitfire cockpit, running the three at different speeds until they meet. There is almost no dialogue and no explanation of the wider war.

Review, written by AI

Closer to a suspense film than a war film: the enemy is barely seen and the threat is mostly sound. The three-clock structure is the only real formal risk, and it pays off in the last twenty minutes. Shot on 65mm and worth seeing large.

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