A great surprise

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2018)

Probably this is one of the biggest and most beautiful surprises that the cinema has reserved for me for this year that has just passed.
"Darkest Hour" is a surprise on several fronts, not only the narrative but also, and perhaps above all, on the technical one.
In fact, the film enjoys an extraordinary visual and artistic component.
A cinematography of the most beautiful of the year that, with fascinating colors and extremely atmospheric lights, fills the film with beautiful images, to say the least suggestive and always remarkably coherent with the tone, which changes several times during the events, that the director Joe Wright decided to give the film.
Also worthy of note is his work for the directing which is rigorous in form and ambitious in content with shots full of symbolism and visually very beautiful.
Excellent also the soundtrack that plays a very important role, almost always keeping the tension high involving the viewer; moreover it is greatly helped by an extraordinary editing.
Impossible not congratulate to Gary Oldman who, with his masterly interpretation, his unique look and movements, mostly of the body, studied in the smallest detail, gives us the best Winston Churchill in the history of cinema.
Furthermore, impeccable make-up and faithful costumes make it perfectly credible.
What prevents me from calling it a film masterpiece is its fluctuating rhythm, it starts in a perfect, fast, captivating, pressing and engaging way, but from the second half onwards it becomes heavy due to a slower, perhaps inevitable.