Blitz

Steve McQueen's Blitz lacks the power of his other films, but is perhaps his easiest film to enjoy.

Saoirse Ronan et le jeune Elliott Heffernan sont les vedettes de ce long métrage de Steve McQueen qui se déroule pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et dans lequel le réalisateur et scénariste continue d'explorer ses thèmes de prédilection. 

Par ce récit  regorgeant d'événements, le réalisateur de la série Small Axe apporte, après Occupied City, une nouvelle pierre à cette autre relecture de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dont les conséquences se font encore malheureusement de plus en plus sentir environ quatre-vingts ans plus tard.

While there's much to admire here . . . the drama too often lacks the subtlety that distinguishes the British writer-director's work at its best. Two hours long, practically to the second, this feels like a project that's been excessively trimmed, snipped and tapered to fit an arbitrary running time.

McQueen, who wrote and directed Blitz, has an effortless technique that whisks you along. Yet I can't say that Blitz ever enters terrain that's morally fascinating or dramatically complex.

I've been to whole film festivals with less cinema than Steve McQueen packs into just two hours.