‘Every man fights
his own war.’ The premise of this compelling and radically
different Hollywood movie belies its ground-breaking uniqueness in
the war genre: US soldiers fighting the last front against the
Japanese at Guadalcanal in 1943. Terrence Malick’s beautiful film
looks at the psychologies that interact in the war situation and
delivers a rare lyricism and tension in this (post) modern take on
war. ‘An art film to the core. If it’s an epic, it’s an
intimate, dream-time epic, an elliptical, episodic film, dependent on
images and reveries, that treats war as the ultimate nightmare, the
one you just cannot awaken from no matter how hard you try’ (Los
Angeles Times). ‘Here is something
great and startling-not necessarily the kind of comforting,
consensus-creating film that wins Oscars, but unquestionably a movie
that will live in the history of the medium’ (New
York Daily News). ‘The film is a
gorgeous garland on an unknown soldier’s grave’ (Time).
The British Institute
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