Reviews for this film from our members:
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: despite having a passionate love story at its center, the film is no romance. Rather, it’s a sometimes potent but more often clumsy examination of the strength of a woman and the devastation of war even among those who never saw battle.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: [Vera] eases a young man into death masquerading as his German sweetheart. It’s an incredibly moving scene and among the most powerful anti-war messages to flicker across a screen.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Admirable, anti-war memoir, concluding with a powerfully persuasive pacifist plea.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A compassionate, distressing tale of a woman’s determination to find her own purpose, full of heartbreaking moments that pile up until they’re unbearable.
- [New – 7/23/15] | João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Vikander, a new star who is suddenly everywhere, dominates the movie, and with her Audrey Hepburn-like beauty she makes us feel every moment of the deepening horrors of war.
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A lush, curiously decorus adaptation of vthe memoir by Vera Brittain…its very conventionality and tactfulness undermine its power.
- David Upton @ So So Gay
- Excerpt: While the film lives away from combat, the emotional pull of Brittain’s fiercely committed experience provides more than enough testament to the tragedy of the war and the heroism of those who lived and died through it.
- Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
