BBC Films
14 October 2014
War Drama
DVD
C+
While I appreciate that this is a war drama that's less about the battles and more about the homefront and nursing, and I can see someone being genuinely moved by, it didn't click for me. There's too little telling and not showing of things like what Vera Brittain actually does at Oxford and why she's in love with Roland. (They bicker and fail to write to each other more than they actually share anything.) Also, why tell us Vera is a talented poet and not actually quote any of her poems? (Unless that's her poem at the end, but even so, too little, too late.) Still, worth watching for the English countryside and Alicia Vikander's range of emotions as Vera.
This is based on Brittain's memoir and directed by James Kent.
