Dunkirk Is A Pure, Powerful War Movie

 

Currently lensing across northern France and parts of England, Dunkirk has piqued our curiosity for its awe-inspiring set photos, showcasing a huge infantry peppered across a ruined, war-torn beach – not to mention those reports suggesting Christopher Nolan and his team could be staging an action sequence that could well involve crashing a $5 million vintage WWII plane all in the name of pure, immersive cinema.

During a recent chat, Mark Rylance championed Dunkirk as pure, powerful cinema, he said “Chris is the most serious and interesting filmmaker. Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film. But Chris’ script-writing is so brilliant that I think he has the potential to make a very, very powerful and simple, pure war film about a miraculous loss. I think it has the potential to be just a marvellous film.”

To fully capture the intensity of the situation, Rylance reveals that Dunkirk won’t spend much time dallying on pre-war exposition saying “With some of those old war films you used to get a lot of build-up, you play the guessing game: who’s going to die and who’s going to live. This one has none of that. It’s just BANG! Straight into the middle of a desperate situation.”

Rylance is part of a truly star-studded ensemble that includes old Nolan confidants Tom Hardy and  Cillian Murphy, newcomer Fionn Whitehead, Kenneth Branagh, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Jack Lowden, Barry Keoghan, Tom Glynn-Carney and Harry Styles.

Dunkirk is slated for a primetime theatrical release on July 21, 2017.