Cinema: Battle Lines

  • Share

Weekend at Dunkirk. This random, well-photographed essay on the futility of war will prove a letdown to audiences lured by the marquee pull of Jean-Paul Belmondo. As a French soldier sweating through the British evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, Belmondo braves German bullets, saves Catherine Spaak from rape, and growls defiance in a flat Yankee accent. Seems he has been dubbed as well as drubbed, and any nuances that his gravelly, one-of-a-kind voice might have lent to the performance are effectively erased. With only one ace in the whole, the distributors of Dunkirk might have been wiser to let him speak in his own defense.

Time.com on Digg

POWERED BY digg

Quotes of the Day »

YIGAL PALMOR, Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman, after the British government issued voluntary guidance to supermarkets stating that labels should identify produce from Israeli settlements
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.