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They Shall Not Grow Old
Description
In the occasion of the 100th anniversary of ending an overall disaster that named World War I, this narrative film demonstrates new scenes and occasions that have never been seen with bits of knowledge and stories from the historical backdrop of the animosity before the war's start.
In the occasion of the 100th anniversary of ending an overall disaster that named World War I, this narrative film demonstrates new scenes and occasions that have never been seen with bits of knowledge and stories from the historical backdrop of the animosity before the war's start.
Actors:
N/A
Genre:
Documentary, History, War
Director:
Peter Jackson
Country:
United Kingdom, New Zealand
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November 09, 2018
Jackson would surely concede that the act of slowing and colouring in the archive film is a means to an end. It is a way of bringing the story of the men who fought 100 years ago back to life, and it works brilliantly.
November 09, 2018
In this remarkable documentary, Peter Jackson has applied his heavy bag of cinematic tricks to archive footage.
November 09, 2018
Jackson uses film and sound archive to their greatest imaginable effect, marrying incredible moving pictures with more than 150 personal testimonies recorded decades after the carnage, played one after another for 100 enthralling minutes.
November 10, 2018
...unbearably poignant.
November 11, 2018
Four years in the making, this feature-length documentary is an ingenious creation indeed.
November 11, 2018
Jackson has done something quite remarkable: using 21st-century technology to put the humanity back into old movie stock. The result is utterly breathtaking.
November 11, 2018
There's a poignant eeriness to this modernization of WWI footage: we are looking into a past that feels touchably close and immediate like never before. But this is a novelty. A solemn one, but a novelty nonetheless.
October 16, 2018
Nothing feels too sentimentalized or sanitized, but nor is it sensationalized for extra shock value either. These are the true accounts of survivors, after all, mostly talking decades after the events and grateful to be alive.
November 09, 2018
It's that rare cinematic beast: an instant classic.
October 16, 2018
Perhaps surprisingly, with a blockbuster merchant at the helm, little here is rousing or sentimental; the film's mordant intimacy of perspective endures as stoically as the speakers themselves.
November 11, 2018
They Shall Not Grow Old is stupendously humane, the polar opposite of propaganda.
October 16, 2018
They Shall Not Grow Old arrives as clinching proof of just how far Peter Jackson has traveled in three decades.
