Their Finest

Their Finest

2017 "In the fight for freedom everyone played a part."
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Their Finest

6.8 | 1h57m | R | en | Drama

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

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Released: April. 07,2017 | Released Producted By: BBC Film , Wildgaze Films Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

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Drama , Romance , War

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Cast

Gemma Arterton , Sam Claflin , Bill Nighy , Jack Huston , Helen McCrory , Eddie Marsan

Director

Gareth Cousins

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BBC Film

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Gareth Cousins
Gareth Cousins

Art Direction

Jonathan Houlding
Jonathan Houlding

Art Direction

Simon Baber
Simon Baber

Location Scout

Alice Normington
Alice Normington

Production Design

Craig Price
Craig Price

Property Master

Liz Griffiths
Liz Griffiths

Set Decoration

Lynne Huitson
Lynne Huitson

Supervising Art Director

Nic Pallace
Nic Pallace

Supervising Art Director

Howard Watkins
Howard Watkins

Title Designer

Sebastian Blenkov
Sebastian Blenkov

Director of Photography

Kevin Foy
Kevin Foy

Key Grip

Nicola Dove
Nicola Dove

Still Photographer

Charlotte Walter
Charlotte Walter

Costume Designer

Hannah Walter
Hannah Walter

Costume Supervisor

Hanna Canfor
Hanna Canfor

Hairstylist

Catriona Johnstone
Catriona Johnstone

Hairstylist

Bella Ava Georgiou
Bella Ava Georgiou

Makeup Artist

Eva Marieges Moore
Eva Marieges Moore

Makeup Artist

Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou

Makeup Designer

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Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
mickmarshall-50977 The only good things to take away from this film were the performances of Bill Nighy and his agents. It was overly sentimental and the characters had neither chemistry nor believability.
h-79973 Even when one has suffered such great loss,wouldn't that be giving death dominion over life?
Neil Welch Catrin Cole comes to London with her artist husband during the Blitz, and takes a job writing "slop" (dialogue for female characters) in films put out by the War Dept. This morphs into screenwriting an inspirational movie about the role of women in the Dunkirk evacuation. But personal relationships raise complications...This movie successfully weaves together elements of romance, drama, comedy, feminism, war, and the British class system (among others) in telling Mrs Cole's story. In doing so, it throws in two story twists, one of them major. They don't exactly turn the story on its head, but they do mean it doesn't follow the course one expects.Gemma Arterton is good as Mrs Cole, and Sam Claflin pleases as her boss. But everyone will love Bill Nighy as egotistical Actor Ambrose.I feared that this would be a feminist tract, but that particular message is sold subtly: it's there, but the film doesn't beat you over the head with it. And you are engaged by the characters, so the message is welcomed.I enjoyed this, and so did the rest of the audience, all of whom were over 60.
Myriam Nys This tragicomedy contains things to like, such as a sensitive and careful reconstruction of everyday life during wartime. There are also flashes of wit and insight to savour. But it is unclear what, if anything, the movie hopes to say or teach or achieve. Does it want to tell us that life is short and war is cruel ? That movies, especially propaganda movies, tend to embellish and embroider ? That the making of movies, especially propaganda movies, is a demanding and capricious business ? But surely we knew all that ?Another of the movie's themes concerns the shifting role and work division between men and women. But again, there have been other, earlier movies that treated the same subject. Besides, it's difficult to pick up a school book on modern Western society that doesn't mention this transformation.The biggest disappointment, for me, came from the scenes where the viewer (finally !) gets to see the propaganda movie about the Dunkirk evacuation. You expect something grand, something sweeping, something stunning - or, who knows, perhaps something cheesy or chaotic beyond belief. Instead you are rewarded with a few glimpses of what seems like a nicely crafted but unremarkable work. It's underwhelming, especially for a sweeping epic that was supposed to rouse the USA to full-throated fury. Was this the movie that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium? No, mate, it wasn't.