The Oscar-winning British film director, Sir Steve McQueen, who is most famous for bringing the horror of the slave trade to cinema screens, has turned his lens on the forgotten, and even officially censored, terrors that London underwent during the second world war.
His starry new film, Blitz, which opens the London film festival (LFF) next month, is a powerful evocation of the perils of life during the German Blitzkrieg – a bombing campaign that aimed to batter Britain into submission in the early 1940s.And he's chosen to include the Bethnal Green Tube disaster, when a crush killed 173 Londoners.
The film is told through the eyes of what I assume is considered to be a typical mother & child from the East End of London in 1943. Let's take a look at a still:
Ahead of the premiere, McQueen said: “Blitz is a movie about Londoners. It honours the spirit of what and how Londoners endured during the blitz, but also explores the true representation of people in London.”
Are you sure about that?
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