2006 · drama · action · war
Flyboys (2006)
Directed by Tony Bill2h 18m2006
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Our read: Flyboys (2006) (2006) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · action · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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