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Sarah's War (2018)
Gripping
I enjoyed every moment of this excellent film.
The actors deliberately under played their rôles in order to keep the characters believable and realistic.
Much of the drama is maintained by camera angles and suggestion. Scissors to murder. Railway lines recalling Anna Karenina's suicide.
Slightly weak final scene of domestic bliss was the nearest to 'syruppy" that the plot came. It seemed a letdown rather than leaving the ending to the watcher's own interpretation after the kiss and only smile from Sarah!
The Jobsworth was all too realistic and his lack of humanity was typical of the post war prejudices of any perceived breach of the self imposed moral codes of the period.
The filming in black and white evoked the films (Brief Encounter etc.) of the heyday of the late '40s.
The dying scene with the music of Pachelbel's Canon was especially evocative.