Read the book instead

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2018)

Maybe it's too much to expect a film drama to be as good as a book. The book funny and gripping and tragic, and develops the story using the letters to and fro between Juliet and others. Gradually, she comes to learn of the hardships, hunger and horrors that the people of Guernsey experienced during WW2. That seemed to me to be the main point of the book, but these are reduced to just a few short scenes. The film is nicely acted but dwells more on the love-life dilemma of Juliet, and is quite bland compared to the book.