Review of Dunkirk (2017) by Juan Ignacio C — 27 Jul 2017

Christopher Nolan establishes himself as the best director working today with this truly experience based movie. You ARE there with the rest of the characters, you can feel the bulletshots, the bombs, the sirens, and most importantly, you can FEEL the desperation, the tension, the panic and the relief as the story unfolds in front of you. Deserving to be seen in IMAX, this is uncuestionably a true cinematic experience where the directing, cinematography, performances, sound design, editing and score all come together to narrate an event criminally ignored by most people.

In line with Nolan's career, the movie is told in an unconventional way, breaking many stereotypes of a classic war film, thus, separating itself from the rest of the genre as a very unique specimen that can only enrich said genre.

Despite being 1 hour and 47 minutes long, it feels like a 2 hour and 30 minutes long film because you're always on edge, constantly tensioned all the way through, making the runtime perfect in order to prevent exhaustion from the audience while being able to have the emotional impact that is needed. This is a psychological war movie as never seen before. It doesn't need the R rating at all. It could've had it, but it didn't need it.

Nolan remembers us that movies are a form of art, plain and simple, blurring the lines between the documentary and the movie, the reality and the fiction, the past and the present and above all, between the seat in the theatre and the events happening on the screen. A true artist. A true magician.