Celebrity, dunkirk, Harry Styles

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has slammed streaming service Netflix for not releasing their movies in cinemas.

One of the most anticipated films of 2017 was Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk”, a World War II epic that is nothing that the acclaimed auteur has ever attempted before.

“Dunkirk” is not quite the type of production with too many lines, so the former One Direction member doesn’t actually say his first line until many minutes later, while aboard a boat that too will go down.

The map centers around the efforts of 338,226 troops were cut off and surrounded by enemy troops on the beach of Dunkirk, France. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated. The film is shown in three distinct timelines – “The Mole” which is set over the course of about a week. “You just wanted to do your bit towards the project, I didn’t have too much time to be worrying about any personal discomfort”.

For his part, Nolan, who tells his story from three points of view – on land, sea and in the air – says he cast Styles because of his potential as an actor, not his potential as a box office draw. The film stars Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy.

“They’re seeing the best possible presentation of the story”, he said.

DUNKIRK is less on conversation and more focused on storytelling through everyone’s eyes. The horror of war is expressed through the young soldier’s desperate attempts to escape. Teenage heartthrob, Harry Styles is making his Hollywood movie debut with this film and does justice to the role of Alex. Tom Hardy takes the lead here as a Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot, engaged in a dogfight with the German Messerschmitts. A second story involves Mark Rylance, playing a civilian captain. The visuals are absolutely spectacular. It has been filmed entirely in IMAX. It is this that makes its approach so different, so obviously right for our sensibilities today, and which makes all other recent history films, such as Churchill (and to judge by its trailer, the upcoming Darkest Hour, in which lean Gary Oldman impersonates stout Winston Churchill thanks to huge prosthetics), look hopelessly old-fashioned and aesthetically hampered. He, cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema and Hans Bjerno, the film’s director of aerial photography, provide myriad powerhouse images.

It will be interesting to see which film general viewers flock to theaters to see as we head into the weekend, as Dunkirk and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are equally ambitious in terms of thematic scope. Dunkirk nails it on all fronts.