period drama
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The Exception
It would be wrong to even infer that Brit filmmakers ever play down the sheer atrocities that occurred during WW2, but there is definitely a whole platform of them who somehow make their war dramas seem almost like a squabble between gentleman that has somehow got out of hand. The Exception is very much…
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The Zookeeper’s Wife
For her latest starring role the twice Oscar Nominated actress Jessica Chastain has ignored the old Hollywood adage ‘never work with animals and children‘ in this highly emotional biopic set in WW2. Chastain plays a real life character Antonina Żabiński, who with her husband Jan (Flemish actor Johan Heldenbergh) run the Warsaw Zoo which they turn…
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The Danish Girl
This may be a thoroughly British take on this very real groundbreaking story, but immediately from the first frame the screen is awash with these muted languid tones of Copenhagen in the first half of the last century, that there is no doubt of where this is all taking place. Einar and Gerda Wegener are…
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Suffragette
Suffragette is a new historical drama that makes Hollywood history itself as it is movie about women, made by woman and starring women. Well technically this movie not is actually Hollywood as it is British with one notable exception, and was even financed by British and French money too. But in light of all the…
