Sam Mendes guides us through the relentless fog-of-war labyrinth of '1917'
by Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times
Dec 23, 2019
3 minutes
Once upon a time, novelist Alfred Mendes told his grandson harrowing tales of his time in World War I. Decades later, the grandson, now an Oscar-winning director, has distilled the essence of those stories into an imagined tale from the narrow cinematic perspective of one continuous take.
"What I was searching to find was the spirit of the stories he told me, and the sense of how fragile life was in that war," says Sam Mendes, who co-wrote "1917" with Krysty Wilson-Cairns. "He
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