From the disaster of Dunkirk comes a triumph of a movie: BRIAN VINER on how Christopher Nolan offers a vivid depiction of an intense will to live, against seemingly insuperable odds.
The mass evacuation of Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in the early summer of 1940 has received pretty scant cinematic attention down the decades, unlike D-Day four years later.
Writer-director Christopher Nolan’s unconventional but gripping film helps, magnificently, to redress the balance.
Its main achievement, contrary to some over-excited reports, is not to offer proof that the One Direction boy-band star Harry Styles, making his screen debut, can really act.
