Day 38 - Dunkirk


Day 38                Dunkirk [2017]
                                   
Screenplay                           Christopher Nolan
Director                                Christopher Nolan
Cinematography                 Hoyte van Hoytema
Music                                    Hans Zimmer
Leads                                    Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Harry Styles
Production                           Syncopy Inc.

IMDb                                          8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes                    92%

The Zimmer-Nolan combination wins again. Dark Knight, Dark Night Rises, Interstellar, Inception and now this. Why would either of them do a movie without the other? Probably because they are both incredibly talented. Zimmer has too many classic movie soundtracks to count. I already sang his praises on day 7, and he’ll go down in history with the likes of Morricone, Williams and Jarre. The concept of this film was pretty cool as we followed three different parts of the same story, yet each part conveys a different period of time. The film is of course based on the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk where civilian boats had to pull together and help with the rescue effort. We follow the evacuation over the period of a week on land, specifically a group of young soldiers trying to find a way off the beaches. We follow a father and son, and the son’s friend, in their boat over the period of a day, as they head over to pick up troops. Finally, we follow three spitfire pilots over the course of an hour as they attempt to provide air support to the evacuating army. It was a good way of doing it, I didn’t quite feel the emotion I thought I would when all the civilian boats turn up, I didn’t think it was a very emotional film. The only emotional bit was on Rylance’s boat, I won’t spoil it. It’s tense all the way through thanks to Zimmer’s intense music. It was also shot beautifully. However, there was something missing, and that thing was the difference between a good film and an epic one. You can’t have it all Nolan.

Acting                                     3 / 4
Writing                                   2 / 4
Cinematography               3.5 / 4
Music                                      4 / 4

HWF rating                      3 / 4