Director: James Kent
Writers: Vera Brittain (autobiography), Juliette Towhidi (screenplay)
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton
Writers: Vera Brittain (autobiography), Juliette Towhidi (screenplay)
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton
Based on the memoirs of Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth tells, with some restraint, the tragic fate of young Britons whose lives will be shattered by the First World War. Therefore, we must welcome Testament of Youth the setting elegant scene of Kent (which is reminiscent of Joe Wright film), and a fair and nuanced scenario that does not fall into the obsession of pathos.
Yet it would have been easy to get out the violins to the character of Vera (played by candidly Vikander) an idle woman, victim of circumstances. The director proposes to give these characters a refreshing depth. So-called dramatic situations, such as an impossible love story, starting with the war, the horrors of it, are not excuses to draw tears to the viewer.
Gorgeously filmed, English landscapes are associated with naivety and youthful hopes. Thus by choosing not to embellish the images associated with the combat, the film has the merit of being visually consistent. Although some effects of staging weigh down somewhat about (some flashbacks), James Kent admirably in doing well for a work of this kind.The speech he is about war and its effects across this young Vera is still relevant.
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