Review of Overlord (1975) by Nonya B — 29 Dec 2011

So understated that it reinforces the tragedy. Every soldier had a back story and we see one such story here. There's nothing glamorous about this soldier's life, nothing to grip Hollywood's attention but this one individual soldier stared death in the face without flicnhing, without making anguished cries about how his impending death was for national pride and honour.

There's just a futile resignation to the inevitable consequences of sending this soldier into action. It's sombre and the sheer ordinariness of his life makes it easy for the viewer to get perspective of what each and every soldier was putting on the line.

A very effective and strangely apolitical war film, well worth catching a glimpse of.