1917
OUT 9 JANUARY CERT TBC / 119 MINS
DIRECTOR Sam Mendes
CAST George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott
PLOT On 6 April 1917 — three years into World War I — two young British soldiers in northern France, Schofield (MacKay) and Blake (Chapman), are tasked with delivering a life-saving message to a distant battalion. To get there, though, they must traverse life-threatening enemy terrains.
TALK OF A tracking shot might usually merit a sentence or two in a film review. A paragraph maybe. Even with Alejandro González Iñárritu’s , which presented itself as an unbroken take, the technique was just one of a handful of talking points. But ’s camerawork engulfs the
