2014 · thriller · irish-troubles · war
'71
Directed by Yann Demange1h 39m2014
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Our read: '71 (2014) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · irish-troubles · war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / irish-troubles, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
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