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Overlord. Has anyone seen it? We have it in the thatre this week...

Posted by clarkjohnsen (R) on August 18, 2006 at 08:06:06

REVIEW SUMMARY
“Overlord,” a prize-winning entry in the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, deserves to join the pantheon of essential World War II combat movies. Unlike most Hollywood war movies, the film, directed by Stuart Cooper and produced with the cooperation of the Imperial War Museum in Britain, has “action” sequences almost entirely drawn from archival documentaries — German as well as British — which contribute not only to the picture’s realism but also to its dreamlike, almost surreal atmosphere. The story is a simple one. A young man named Tom Beddows (Brian Stirner) leaves his parents and his beloved cocker spaniel and reports for military duty, arriving late because of a German air raid. We follow him through his training, his brief moments of liberty and the tedium of waiting for combat, until finally he hunkers down in a boat for the trip across the channel. — A. O. Scott, The New York Times

And the Boston Globe review today:

• http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2006/08/18/a_captivating_tale_of_coming_of_age_in_wartime/   (Open in New Window)

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