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Dunkirk

  • 2017
  • PG-13
  • 1h 46m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
682K
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POPULARITY
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Fionn Whitehead in Dunkirk (2017)
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
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Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

  • Director
    • Christopher Nolan
  • Writer
    • Christopher Nolan
  • Stars
    • Fionn Whitehead
    • Barry Keoghan
    • Mark Rylance
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    682K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    595
    35
    • Director
      • Christopher Nolan
    • Writer
      • Christopher Nolan
    • Stars
      • Fionn Whitehead
      • Barry Keoghan
      • Mark Rylance
    • 2.6KUser reviews
    • 565Critic reviews
    • 94Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 3 Oscars
      • 66 wins & 235 nominations total

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    Mark Rylance and Barry Keoghan in Dunkirk (2017)
    Fionn Whitehead in Dunkirk (2017)
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    Aneurin Barnard, Harry Styles, and Fionn Whitehead in Dunkirk (2017)
    Kenneth Branagh in Dunkirk (2017)
    Kenneth Branagh in Dunkirk (2017)
    Fionn Whitehead in Dunkirk (2017)
    Kenneth Branagh in Dunkirk (2017)
    Tom Hardy in Dunkirk (2017)

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    Fionn Whitehead
    Fionn Whitehead
    • Tommy
    Barry Keoghan
    Barry Keoghan
    • George
    Mark Rylance
    Mark Rylance
    • Mr. Dawson
    Tom Hardy
    Tom Hardy
    • Farrier
    Damien Bonnard
    Damien Bonnard
    • French Soldier
    Aneurin Barnard
    Aneurin Barnard
    • Gibson
    Lee Armstrong
    Lee Armstrong
    • Grenadier
    James Bloor
    James Bloor
    • Irate Soldier
    Tom Glynn-Carney
    Tom Glynn-Carney
    • Peter
    Jack Lowden
    Jack Lowden
    • Collins
    Luke Thompson
    Luke Thompson
    • Warrant Officer
    Michel Biel
    • French Soldier 2
    Constantin Balsan
    • French Soldier 3
    Billy Howle
    Billy Howle
    • Petty Officer
    Mikey Collins
    Mikey Collins
    • Soldier
    Callum Blake
    Callum Blake
    • Stretcher Bearer
    Dean Ridge
    Dean Ridge
    • Soldier at the Gap
    Bobby Lockwood
    Bobby Lockwood
    • Able Seaman
    • Director
      • Christopher Nolan
    • Writer
      • Christopher Nolan
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      According to Sir Kenneth Branagh, roughly thirty Dunkirk survivors, who were in their mid-90s, attended the premiere in London, England. When asked about the movie, they felt that it accurately captured the event, but that the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment, a comment that greatly amused writer, producer, and director Christopher Nolan.
    • Goofs
      The Luftwaffe did not start painting fighter aircraft nose cones yellow until later in 1940. However Christopher Nolan has admitted this was done deliberately to make the German aircraft easier to identify by the audience.
    • Quotes

      Blind Man: Well done, lads. Well done.

      Alex: All we did is survive.

      Blind Man: That's enough.

    • Crazy credits
      "The following Dunkirk little ships recreated their courageous and historic journey for this film: Caronia, Elvin, Endeavour, Hilfranor, Mary Jane, Mimosa, MTB 102, New Britannic, Nyula, Papillon, Princess Elizabeth, RIIS I"
    • Alternate versions
      In Spain, the film was projected on 2.35:1 screens in the 2.20:1 aspect ratio. But the film was finally projected with black bars on the four sides of the screen. This same situation happened with Jurassic World (2015) and just before the film started a text appeared on the screen explaining the 2.00:1 aspect ratio fitting on the 2.35:1 screen adding black bars up an down. Dunkirk (2017) didn't show any explanation before the film.
    • Connections
      Featured in Film '72: Episode #46.1 (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      Variation 15 (Dunkirk)
      by Benjamin Wallfisch

      Produced by Hans Zimmer

      Based on a theme by Edward Elgar

    User reviews2.6K

    Review
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    6/10
    Hipsterish affectation of an "artistic" war movie.
    This movie is so paper thin I really can't write much about it. So many missed opportunities in a film about one of the most spectacular and complex battles of WWII. I can see what Nolan tried to do here, a kind of British "Thin Red Line" (there's even wind in the grass, lol, i kid you not), but he failed spectacularly. There are no memorable characters to be found here, and one wonders even if there are any actual characters at all. Not one, not one of them has any semblance of a character arc. Not one. Again, I see how Nolan tried to convey the impersonality of war and insignificance of the individual but he did it with such a heavy, clumsy hand, providing us with no counterpoint with which to drive the point home. It's basic screen writing stuff really. I'd expect such ineptitude from a first year film student but not from a supposed "master of the craft".

    But anyways, this could have been forgivable if the film was more about the event itself, but it fails at that too. After watching the film, you'd be given to believe that the Battle of Dunkirk was fought by three Spitfires (100 were lost over the beeches alone), 1 German heinkel, a couple of stukas, 2 destroyers or a dozen or so boats... Oh yes and maybe a few hundred men standing quietly on a beach, doing nothing except desperately trying to look morose and dejected in a faintly passive-aggressive way. It's ridiculous. We are talking about total and absolute chaos happening there, hundreds of thousands of rifles alone discarded on the beach, not to mention guns, artillery, trucks... Burning and sinking ships of all sizes all across the horizon, parts of beaches inaccessible from rotting corpses washing up with tides. This was actually way bigger than D-Day landings in terms of men and equipment stuffed in a very small patch of land. Half a million desperate men stuffed in a small town, bombarded incessantly and under constant attack from bombers. Where did all those people defecate, what did they eat ffs? I wanted to know that, really. That at least would have given some much needed humanity to the so-called-characters Nolan keeps yanking around like so much puppets. So many missed opportunities there...

    If Nolan wanted to do a tight little film about isolation and desperation of being on the loosing side of the war, he had plenty of other places and battles to choose from. Just ask around. Or if he simply had to insist on Dunkirk, then we should have seen this total chaos all around our protagonists, in the background at least - that would have served as a really powerful, so desperately needed counterpoint to the individual suffering and heroism.

    And this brings me to the final point. The movie is one tone only. A monotone repetition of sights and emotions we've seen and experienced before. No one cracks a joke. No one really breaks down. No one has an embarrassing moment. There are no ups and downs, it's just some morose faceless robots performing obvious actions leading towards a bleedingly obvious goal. One single emotional and narrative tone from the beginning to the end. The entire emotional and narrative content of the movie would have fit snugly into a 20 minute short, and that is pretty much how long it takes before you start yawning. The best thing that can be said about the movie is that individual scenes are well directed and worth experiencing. But that is the real problem here - the film is constructed as a series of impressive "experiences" rather than cohesive piece of drama (And this particular historical event is almost uniquely stuffed with dramatic opportunities. It's almost as if golden-age Hollywood writers wrote the script for the actual event.) In other words, it's a Dunkirk theme park rather than a movie. You take rides. And that's it. And even those become repetitive after a while.
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    • Jul 22, 2017

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    FAQ4

    • If there were literally 1000's of armed soldiers on the beach, why wasn't it possible to all shoot at one plane at a time as it approached? Out of a few thousand bullets surely the chances of hitting the plane would be high?
    • What does "The Mole: One Week, The Sea: One Day and The Air: One Hour" mean?
    • Is the story line based on the real-life experiences of Commander Charles Lightoller at Dunkirk?

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    • Release date
      • July 21, 2017 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Netherlands
      • France
      • United States
    • Official sites
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    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Bodega Bay
    • Filming locations
      • Urk, Flevoland, Netherlands
    • Production companies
      • Syncopy
      • Warner Bros.
      • Dombey Street Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $100,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $189,740,665
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $50,513,488
      • Jul 23, 2017
    • Gross worldwide
      • $527,016,307
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Sonics-DDP
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.20 : 1

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