Written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford (Pride). Excellent look at early life of writer, essentially cross-cutting between WWI trenches and his time at school / Oxford with three like-minded artistic friends. It seems to me the poet is unspokenly in love with Tolkein. Enhanced by a remarkable score by Tom Newman (just a coincidence - I didn't realise he'd written it.) Check out this fabulous piece of music.
Karukoski went on to make The Beast Must Die. Great cinematography from Lasse Frank Johannessen and editing by Harri Ylonen (with Chris Gill).
Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Patrick Gibson, Anthony Boyle, Tom Glynn-Carney, Derek Jacobi, Pam Ferris, Craig Roberts, Laura Donnelly, Genevieve O'Reilly (poet's mother).
Wasn't sure if I'd like it. Did.
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