Well we enjoyed this original story of an evacuated boy who escapes and tries to get back to his family in Stepney, he being Elliott Heffernan, who's fabulous. The visceral experience of the Blitz - from the opening fire onwards - is extremely well caught by cameraman Yorick Le Saux (Little Women, Clouds of Sils Maria), production designer Adam Stockhausen and an army of CGI designers.
Mother is Saoirse Ronan (great accent) and grandfather Paul Weller ('Is that Paul Weller?' Q asked. 'No', 'I replied, confidently). With Benjamin Clémentine (sympathetic air raid warden), Harris Dickinson, Kathy Burke, Stephen Graham, Sally Messham, Erin Kellyman (Les Misérables), Hayley Squires, Joshua McGuire, Alex Jennings.
There's a kind of small genre of 'getting home' films, isn't there, like Walkabout and Sammy Going South and A Far Off Place. And, with adults, 71 and The Warriors and I suppose Odd Man Out. I'm sure I'm forgetting loads. This is a most successful example. The racial references are good. The bravura sequence in the nightclub, followed by the appearance of the scavengers amongst the corpses, is memorable indeed.
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