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Dunkirk

2017 · TMDB 7.5

Directed by Christopher Nolan

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

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Nolan's war epic, shot on 65mm and IMAX, throws you onto the beach with visceral immediacy. The film's physicality is its argument for celluloid.

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