Soon deleted from the streaming platform, this war film had impressed spectators when it was released thanks to a very radical choice of staging.
Immerse in the horror of war, as if you were there. Impossible ? This film released in France on January 15, 2020 at the cinema, nevertheless did it. It was “sufficient” of a very strong and very complicated staging choice to make on the technical level, to achieve this and offer a striking experience to the spectators. This allowed him to win the Golden Globe for the best dramatic film and the best achievement the year of its release.
If you want to discover this feat of cinema, do not delay: currently available on Netflix, this war film will soon be removed from the streaming platform, which regularly sorts in its catalog to make room for new products, or when rights operations are expired.
Directed by Sam Mendes, to whom we were already American Beauty And Skyfallthe war film, baptized soberly 1917follows the mission of two young British soldiers during the First World War. In one day, they must infiltrate enemy lines and provide a message to the second battalion to prevent the death of 1,600 men.
To give this time trial an additional suspense, Sam Mendes made a radical choice: that of using the technique of “false sequence plan”. On the screen, it has the impression that there is no cutting plan and that the spectator looks at a plan that never stops, as if the camera followed was in real time these two soldiers. In reality, 1917 is not composed of a single sequence plan, but several plans, whose cuts, invisible to the naked eye, have been masked thanks to techniques and montage strings. However, this technique presents challenges during filming (especially in light or sound).
In total, 40 to 50 scenes were filmed, estimated the director in the columns of first. And if you are a film buff, the “false sequence plan” is perhaps a process of which you are already familiar: Alfred Hitchcock had already used it in The ropejust like Alejandro González Iñárritu in Birdman.
If you want to discover 1917do not delay too much: the feature film carried by George Mackay, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch leaves Netflix from January 31. After this date, it is on the purchase and rental platforms, or on DVD, that it will be possible to discover the war film.