1917 — A truly novel cinematographic experience!

Put on your cap, equip yourself, pick up your gun and leave on a mission in a live warzone, with virtually zero assistance and pretty much alone. The stakes, you ask? Preventing 1600 of your armymen dying. That’s ‘1917’ for you!

There’s not much of a story here, just an experience, quite like ‘127 Hours’ or ‘Gravity’ or ‘Trapped’. Director Sam Mendes wishes to take you through the horrors and futilities of War first-hand!

A technical marvel, the Director and Cinematographer Roger Deakins achieve the astonishingly difficult feat of making this film feel as if shot in a single, continuous take.

It has sequences with unbelievable highs but also loosens its grip on you sometimes, ironically also because of its single take treatment. Nonetheless, I strongly recommend it for the novelty of the experience it offers. Watch it on the biggest screen you can!