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1. www.biography.com › blitz-movie-true-storyIs ‘Blitz’ a True Story? The Real Stories Behind the New Movie

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   4 hours ago · Movies Based on True Stories. A Pair of Real Civilian Tragedies Helped Inspire the World War II Movie Blitz. The new film starring Saoirse Ronan tells the story of a mother and young son separated ...

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3. www.bigissue.com › culture › film'War is madness': Steve McQueen and Saoirse Ronan on ...

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   1 day ago · 1 Nov 2024. Elliott Heffernan as George and Saoirse Ronan as Rita in Blitz. Image: Parisa Taghizadeh. “We base a lot of our national identity on the Blitz and the Second World War. But we know more about the Tudors than about the Blitz.”. Steve McQueen’s latest film challenges us to take a new look at notions of Britishness and the ...

4. time.com › 7171502 › blitz-reviewWorld War II Drama Blitz Is Steve McQueen's Most Tender Film ...

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   3 hours ago · Blitz may be McQueen’s most tender film, though it’s never precious. George is a scrapper, used to taking care of himself. But we also see, in flashbacks, how safe he feels in the care of his ...

5. www.newstatesman.com › culture › filmThe myths of Blitz spirit - New Statesman

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   3 days ago · Steve McQueen’s latest film, Blitz, is told largely through the eyes of one of those “social problems” – a nine-year-old mixed-race boy from Stepney called George Hanway (Elliott Heffernan). It is set over three nights in September 1940 (before the Americans joined the war), during the intensive bombing campaign commonly referred to as ...

6. www.rollingstone.com › tv-movies › tv-movie-reviews‘Blitz’ Revisits a WWII Britain Under Fire — and at War With ...

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   1 day ago · London’s burning, quite literally, in Steve McQueen ‘s Blitz — you have not had a second to catch your breath before this WWII movie opens en media catastrophe and the sound of an inferno is ...

7. www.bbc.co.uk › culture › articleBlitz and the truth about London's greatest wartime horror

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   3 days ago · As film critic Raymond Durgant writes in his 1970 book A Mirror for England: British Movies from Austerity to Affluence, "The war against Nazism made race prejudice infra dig for a while".

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   Does young innocence magnify the horrors of war?

   • Youthful innocence can magnify the horrors of war, as it does in shattering dramas like Come and See or the animated Grave of the Fireflies. But then there’s Hope and Glory, John Boorman’s 1987 portrait of his boyhood years during the Blitz.

   A mother and son are separated by the London 'Blitz' in this quietly radi…

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   Did criminality threaten the wartime consensus?

   • But it wasn't just criminality which threatened the wartime consensus. McQueen also explores the deeper social divisions of the time. George, the film's young protagonist, is mixed-race, and his point-of-view offers an insight into the prejudices and assumptions of an imperial Britain.

   Blitz and the truth about London's greatest wartime horror

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   Was Britain really a nation at war with itself?

   • Not to mention a prime spot for mass graverobbing. These bits of peripheral business on the way to a tearful reunion arguably underline the real thrust here — that while Britain was under siege, it was also very much a nation at war with itself.

   ‘Blitz’ Revisits a WWII Britain Under Fire — and at War With Itself

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9. www.npr.org › 2024/11/01 › nx-s1-5175112'Blitz' review: Saoirse Ronan is a mother separated from her ...

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   9 hours ago · A mother and son are separated by the London 'Blitz' in this quietly radical film. In Blitz, Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan play a mother and son separated by war in 1940 London. From Empire ...