A brilliant cinematic experience!

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2020)

On the same day that the United States declares war on Germany, two young British lance corporals are faced with an apparently impossible mission: to cross the french battlefield carrying an order to cancel an attack and prevent the massacre of at least 1600 british soldiers.
Set in the penultimate year of the First World War, 1917 is one of those films that arrest the viewer in the first minutes and then drag him up and down without giving him time to breathe.
Merit of director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 007: Skyfall), who also signs the script, based on stories told by his grandfather, a former Great War fighter.
Recorded as a great sequence shot, with really imperceptible cuts, 1917 throws the audience into the drama of soldiers Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman, from Game of Thrones) and Schofield (George MacKay, from Captain Fantastic) on their journey through a France in pieces, which will test their beliefs, courage and friendship to the last strength.
The cinematography of the veteran Roger Deakins, an Oscar winner in 2018 for Blade Runner 2049, is a complete show apart, always leading the narrative to the best of the script, at the right time - there are no mistakes here.
With 1917, Mendes managed to make not only one of the greatest (and best) war films of all time, but also present the audience with a great cinema class and a true dramatic experience. An instant classic.
Let the Oscars come.