Outstanding treatment of a difficult subject

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2020)

This is a masterclass in how to make a movie. The subject is difficult; most people are turned off by the horror of the First World War. But this film captures the realism with superbly portrayed characters whilst maintaining a fast moving storyline. The choice of the German retreat at the end of the First Somme was inspired (I was expecting 1917 to mean Passchendaele - it usually does). The particular incidents accord with accounts which I have read.
This is the first film in a long time which I would have wanted to go back and see again.
Excellent.