The soldiers lament the poor conditions at the camp and soon the boredom begins to degrade them. Now prisoners of war, they are transported to a POW camp in Capua, Southern Italy. After suffering a breakdown the group is attacked by German soldiers, resulting in the deaths of both Thompson and Milton which forces Charlie and Grimes to surrender themselves. They head out into the desert in a Jeep under the command of Captain Thompson and Sergeant Milton. The next morning Tup sees him off at the station and he subsequently boards a ship bound for Africa.Īt the British HQ in Sidi Nsir, Tunisia Charlie and Grimes are told they are to take part in a risky reconnaissance mission as a prelude to the anticipated arrival of German soldiers. A distraught Tup confronts Charlie the night before he is due to leave he tries to clam the situation by professing to her that he will return home, despite his father being killed in World War I. Charlie later meets up with fellow soldier Private Andrew Grimes, who tells him they are to be sent to North Africa. A montage begins showing the development of their relationship and the birth of their son, Terry. He cycles back to Brighton where he meets his soon-to-be-wife Ivy 'Tup' Standing and they go for a countryside picnic. Private Charlie Standing of the Royal Hampshire Regiment is stationed at a remote outpost at Cuckmere Haven, overlooking the Seven Sisters along the south coast of England. The film was produced by Relsah Films and distributed by 101 Films International and 3 Wolves. Released when Hasler was 16, WWII: The Long Road Home premiered at the Brighton and Edinburgh festivals in 2017 and was praised by critics for the vision of the project in relation to Hasler's age. Created between the ages of 14 and 16 whilst Hasler was still at school, the film centres on the story of his own great-grandfather's experiences as an escaped prisoner of war in Italy. WWII: The Long Road Home is a 2017 World War II biographical drama adventure film written and directed by Elliott Hasler.
It’s the exact opposite of Rutherford’s work on Joanna Hogg‘s superb Archipelago (2010), all stormy skies and shadowy rooms, a film which Gilbert slyly namechecks via a crossword clue.World War II biographical drama adventure film Gilbert, BAFTA-nominated for her 2007 short Hesitation and the daughter of Brian Gilbert (best known for bookish 1990s biopics Wilde and Tom & Viv), relies on cinematographer Ed Rutherford to “open out” her story, most effectively in daytime exterior scenes conducted under a sun that’s more flattening than kissing. It’s an unsurprisingly “literary” kind of film, with the emphasis on the text and the actors and all directorial flourishes kept to a bare minimum. But while she deserves credit for skirting histrionics and tragedy, by the end it’s debatable whether the results are elegantly spare or pallidly slender. This thankfully doesn’t quite materialize, Gilbert instead developing the Joseph/Suzanne relationship in a mature, nuanced manner.
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The stage is set for a familiar story of long-dormant lust and septuagenarian folly with what we fear will be dire, melodramatic consequences – Amour plus Venus meets Death In Venice, even. Joseph is only shaken from his genteel torpor when he becomes quietly infatuated with twentysomething Suzanne (Dormer), who’s in town for a few days with her boyfriend Mark ( Paul Nicholls).
He’s languid and somewhat bored she’s much feistier and more energetic, despite showing early symptoms of mental cloudiness. Indeed, this kind of restrained, civilized fare is the kind of thing often to be found on BBC’s staid Radio 4, to which seventyish Joseph (Fox) and his Irish wife Brenda (Fricker) remain devoted despite having decamped to foreign climes.
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But it seldom feels particularly “cinematic,” and there’s the sense that Gilbert’s text could just as easily have been adapted for TV or radio. Set and shot in the beautiful and ancient Roman city of Nimes, not far from France’s Mediterranean coast, A Long Way From Home makes pleasant use of some unfamiliar locations.
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