“It’s a miracle” This film by Christopher Nolan is a masterpiece for the director of La La Land with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone

News culture “It’s a miracle” This film by Christopher Nolan is a masterpiece for the director of La La Land with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone

Author of the celebrated LaLaLand, Whiplash and Babylon – but also the unfortunate First Manalways pushed into the background – Damien Chazelle is undoubtedly one of the most important actors in contemporary cinema. It must be said that the French-American director breathes and talks about cinema like no other. Whether you are inspired by Jacques Demy and other historical musicals LaLaLandhis masterpiece with 6 Oscars and 7 Golden Globes. Or by paying homage to Hollywood of the 1920s in its unloved but spectacular form. Babylonwhose commercial failure we explained to you in this article. Chazelle has always expressed his love for his friends, both old and contemporary.

It is therefore not surprising that Watch him praise Christopher Nolan’s worka director he has always shown great respect for. It is also due to the microphone of diversity that he decided to declare his love for the British-American filmmaker and in particular for one of his works, Dunkirk:

What Christopher Nolan achieves with “Dunkirk” feels like the highlight of a career. It is music like in the cinema – a continuous, breathless flow of images and sounds that seems elemental and primal. And in such a big film, depicting such an epic event, simplicity itself is paramount (…) It reminded me of the lessons of silent cinema. When you strip away everything but the essentials, you can see the true heart of something. And in our case, the “thing” is a fight that few people in America have ever heard of. How can a movie called “Dunkirk” draw so many people to American theaters today? It’s a bit of a miracle, a giant middle finger to everyone who says there’s no room for big risks on the big screen.

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At the same time, one must admit that there are many reasons to praise Dunkirk. Tell the story of the operation dynamoperformed from May 27 to June 4, 1940, during the historic Battle of Dunkirk, the film represents the side Follow three groups of protagonists : a British pilot (the sky), a group of sailors on their way to France (the sea) and soldiers stranded on the northern beaches (the earth). Three groups that will each develop in their own way, in a turbulent non-linear narrativewhich will find its meaning in a grandiose conclusion.

A war film that follows the desperate attempt of the Allies to reach England in order to survive, thanks to a grandiose production and an insane soundscape. Because if Nolan knows how to impress us with his camera, beautifully showing us the smallness of a soldier in a frenzied war, we don’t know what to say about the effort that went into the sound of Dunkirk. Imposing, stressful and disturbing, the soundtrack gives rhythm to the film and sometimes puts us in a state of intense stress and tension, sometimes in an insane and liberating euphoria. A spectacular job, for which the sound teams were of course rewarded with two Oscars, one for editing and one for mixing.

A film that is definitely worth seeing, even if it can be accused of some historical inaccuracies. Inaccuracies that in particular obscure the important role played by French soldiers in repelling the Nazi forces. Released in cinemas in 2017, Dunkirk is now available on the new Max platform that you talked about in this article.