Dunkirk (Blu-ray DVD Digital Combo Pack)

by Fionn Whitehead (Artist)

DVD, 2017

Call number

DVD-DRAMA 469

Collection

DVD

Publication

Warner Home Video (2017), Edition: DVD Digital HD with Ultrav

Description

A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold. The evacuation was aided by civilians who traversed the English Channel in order to collect the soldiers stranded on the beach.

User reviews

LibraryThing member wyvernfriend

Not a bad movie and it kept me engaged but it wasn't great. My viewing was somewhat skewed by the fact that I knew about the lack of Indian troops before starting and was somewhat looking for other issues. My world-war-II enthuaist husband said that he had seen better from the period.

It's not a bad

movie just not as good as it could be.

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LibraryThing member calum-iain

Technically excellent but entirely soulless film that fails to understand or get to the core of the truly epic nature of the Dunkirk evacuation. Over the eight days between 26 May and 4 June 1940, 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk by British and

Canadian destroyers and a flotilla of 800 little boats - fishing boats, small pleasure craft and yachts. All this while under bombardment by the surrounding German forces and under constant air attack by the Luftwaffe. From a directorial perspective, Nolan's playing about with time was interesting and well done, but in the context of the film pointless. The structure is episodic and there are storylines that appear superfluous and worse, tedious. It isn't that Dunkirk is a bad film - it is always fantastic to look at and Hans Zimmer's metronomic score is magnificent, but unfortunately the whole thing is characterless and emotion free and leaves no real impression of the "miracle of Dunkirk".

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LibraryThing member jgcorrea

DUNKIRK is the antithetical war movie, avoiding big speeches, generals in rooms discussing strategy, and instead focuses on the terror of dive bomber screams and deafening artillery. Nolan draws from Hitchcockian suspense & David Lean-like intimacy to deliver one of the best war films ever.

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