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Release Date: 05 June, 2001 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.96! Cast: Complete Cast (15 total) |
Hope and Glory Reviews
Life and growing-up in wartime Britain (Great WWII film for adult sensibilities)
Typically wartime films focus on the soldier, encampments, transport, combat and the like with but the occasional homefront scene to provide context. Such juxtapositioning, however, rarely does justice to the trials of life experienced by civilians as battles take place far afield. That's why Hope & Glory is such a unique piece of moviemaking. In it we are taken along bombed streets; to charitable shops for clothing; into air raid shelters; to the cinema to escape the war; to neighbors homes to embrace a sense of community. Hope & Glory is a "wartime" film wherein we see almost none of war's fare; as we are made to feel a part of it as viewers, knowing---from history---what is happening further afield without having to see any of it ourselves. Life is indomitable & goes on as surely during difficult times as carefree ones. It is the "Hope" in Hope & Glory and this film's accomplishment is its effectiveness in conveying such. If you want to feel something of the time that was wartime as Hitlerite Germany ran amok in Europe then do view this fine film. Along with "The Gathering Storm" starring Albert Finney & "Life is Beautiful", "Hope & Glory" is one of several films that brings the era of the Second World War to life; and makes the great combat films (such as "The Longest day", "Patton", et al) resonate even more with repeated viewings. If interested in other suggestions, see my "Viscerally experience WWII" Amazon guide (just click on my name & then side left, to "So you'd like to..."). Incidentially, for those considering viewing this film as a family, I'd suggest you choose "Mrs. Miniver" for that instead, & save this film (with has some sexual issues) for the adults. Cheers!
A masterwork by a master director
John Boorman's coming of age drama shows the resilience of family in the face of the random and the ridiculous in World War Two London. The individual scenes and characters will pop into your consciousness and serve as a reference point for conversations and reminiscences. Boorman's genius is in not burdening his vignettes with too much plotline and simply allowing the characters to reveal themselves in the trying situations they face as the result of the hardships of wartime London. Worth watching again and again. The acting is stellar! A masterwork by master artists.
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