Dunkirk review

Rating: 9/10 (10 December 2017)

Dunkirk follows closely certain characters and it plays with flashback. The music accentuate the tension and is interesting but surely not your typical orchestrated symphony. Even if the dialogues are sparse, you feel there is a very good reason for it. The actors are really good and seems all marked by the war in some ways. The film is more about the action then the strategy that went into the actual event and not war movie that focus on the bloody part too much. The planes scenes were my favorite because they show how hard it was to use them. The sky camera angles are spectacular and gives you the impression of being in the plane. I think the flashback between the planes and the boats can be hard to understand at first viewing. When I saw it a second time I was able to better connect the time line. And in a way it made first viewing an exercise of connecting the dots... Otherwise this movie is intense because it doesn't really stop that much. It's nice to see Nolan getting behind an historical event, and see how he presented this. He did it with a certain form and style, with beautiful photography.