What makes The Oscar-winner’s latest film anything but conventional is its centering on a love story between mother and child that pays close attention to how society shifts and functions during wartime
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen is mulling what it means to be “in theatre,” an expression used by troops to refer to being in a war zone. He repeats it – “in theatre” – as if to underline the words without explicitly drawing out the correlation between devastating combat and spectacle. Instead, he just lets it hang there., will have its world premiere at the London Film Festival.
The film, which is landing on AppleTV+ November 22, stars Saoirse Ronan as Rita, a mother scrambling to locate her lost 9-year-old son George while German warplanes rain bombs from the skies. George, whose father, like McQueen’s, is Grenadian, has escaped from the trains evacuating London’s children from the bombarded zones, desperate to find his mother instead of the safety he’s been promised.
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