Overlord
United Kingdom
1975
84 Min
Black and White
1.66:1
English
Synopsis
Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper’s immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s journey from basic training to the front lines of D-Day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to life with jolting authenticity. Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick’s longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of World War II and a dreamlike meditation on man’s smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine. —The Criterion Collection
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By Edna Sweetlove on May 25, 2011
I found the first 35 minutes very boring indeed, but after that it picked up a lot. The “plot” was predictable (young everyman called up, trained by idiots, reduced to a cipher and then sacrificed… read review
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By Jimmy Cline on August 2, 2009
It takes a pretty tactful director to pull of a film about war that intertwines archival war footage with a fictional narrative. Resnais definitely accomplished this with Hiroshima Mon Amor. And… read review
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By futurestar on March 29, 2009
A singular narrative of one soldier’s story as he preps for the upcoming June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion British style in Overlord. From induction through basic training up to heading into Normandy on… read review
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