1964 · war · epic · historical
Zulu
Directed by Cy Endfield2h 18m1964
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Our read: Zulu (1964) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded war · epic · historical entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme war / epic, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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