1917, directed by Sam Mendes, is a World War I movie that looks like a single take.

By Jane Freebury
January 15 2020 - 9:00am

For whatever reasons, World War I doesn't figure nearly as much as World War II on the movie screen. Maybe that's because it was years ago and there have been so many other wars and quasi wars in between. Or maybe it's because in World War I much of the conflict was confined to the trenches for months on end, a scenario that can have limited visual and dramatic appeal.

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