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Oh wow! This film is beautiful. I know i shouldn't say that because it's about war but it's aboustely stunning to watch. I aboustely loved the editing. I don't know how much of this came from research or how much they winged especially with the dialogue, they made it feel like as if it was real and this is what would've happened or would've been said. I'm a sucker for war movies but I think this is the first one I've seen that's told from Winston Churchill's point of view rather than from the soldiers. It's so powerful and emotional. #churchill #churchillmovie https://www.instagram.com/p/CDvrm6andHE/?igshid=3z1h6pkgyy40

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Dirigida por Jonathan Teplitzky la película "Churchill" gira en torno de la dudas del primer ministro de Inglaterra Winston Churchill sobre la operación "Overlord" (Día D) (la micro reseña ya en el canal, foto: David Higgs) #churchill #churchillmovie #peliculachurchill #microreseña

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Movie Review: Churchill

Churchill ****

Rating: PG

Run Time: 1 hour 38 minutes

Stars: Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery

Writer: Alex von Tunzelmann

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky

 In a week when the public wearing of undergarments appears to be the main attraction (I’m looking at you, while trying not to stare, Wonder Woman and Captain Underpants), three considerably quieter, and infinitely more thoughtful, are mounting a stealth campaign for the hearts and minds of smart moviegoers.

 Foremost among them is Churchill, a stirringly intimate study of the British prime minister in the days leading up to the D-Day Invasion (73 years ago this week).    Stomping about with that oversized cigar, full of Brit bluster, star Brian Cox gives us just the Churchill we expect to see, but that’s the easy part. The re  al challenge for Cox — and or us as an audience — is his portrayal of the private Churchill, eaten alive by doubt, haunted by graphic memories of the First World War, and dismissed by his peers as a man whose time has passed.  

 The Prime Minister’s primary difficulty, it turns out, is in summoning up enthusiasm for the Normandy invasion plan. Eisenhower (John Slattery) and Field Marshall Montgomery (Julian Wadham) are gung-ho for the strategy, but Churchill carries a burden neither of them do: He was a commander in Gallipoli in 1915, when the British attempted a similar assault from the sea in Turkey. The invasion failed horribly, with nearly a quarter-million Allied casualties. The plans for Operation Overlord, to Churchill’s eye, look sickeningly similar.

 But Churchill is a political leader, not a military one, and a series of fierce face-to-face confrontations make one thing abundantly clear: This is not his war anymore. And so Churchill slinks back to his bunker, like a battered badger returning to his burrow, to toil over an inspirational D-Day speech for which he has no stomach. He finds little solace there, barking and sniping at his often-cowering staff — and even at his wife Winnie (Miranda Richardson) who will tolerate his self-pity only so much.

 Cox won an Emmy playing Hitler’s Goering in the 2000 TV movie Nuremberg — and as headstrong and pompous as that monster was, Cox’s Churchill is gnawed at by insecurities. He’s keenly aware that the nation has cast him as its “Great Man,” but he sees himself as anything but great; weakened by age, nearly crippled by alcoholism, but most devastatingly tormented by his memories of war.

 At the film’s outset, and again near its climax, director Jonathan Teplitzky leads Cox’s Churchill to the edge of the English Channel — looking oddly Nixonian as the surf laps at his polished dress shoes — where he imagines the water as the blood of untold thousands of young men. Some may scoff at the frank literalness of the image, but Cox’s hollow eyes and gaping mouth give the moment a raw sense of authenticity. Churchill, seen at that moment, is a man in the jaws of not one war but two; helping win one while suffering post traumatic stress from the other.

 History has shown Churchill was wrong about the efficacy of the Normandy Invasion. But he was right about its awful human toll, and later assessments suggest his alternative suggestion — invasion of Germany via Italy — may have been just as successful and a whole lot less bloody.

6/2/2017

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Lionsgate have released the latest official trailer for the new movie “Churchill.” Starring Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Ella Purnell, Julian Wadham, Richard Durden, James Purefoy, Danny Webb, George Anton, Jonathan Aris, Steven Cree and Peter Ormond.