Hope and Glory

 Hope and Glory 1987

• Director: John Boorman
• Seen by the director: Ex Calibur, Deliverance
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sammi Davis, Derrick O’Connor
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Sarah Miles – Blow-Up, The Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
• David Hayman – Fisherman’s Friends, Blinded by the Light, London Spy, Macbeth, The Hollow Crown, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, My Name Is Joe, The Boxer, Regeneration, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Rob Roy, Sid and Nancy
• Why? A kind of modern classic
• Seen: 12 June 2022      

       London 1939. War breaks out. Life goes on.

       Billy (Rice-Edwards) tells the story based on the director’s own childhood experience of the war). He just thinks the war is fun and exciting. He plays in the ruins, he observes the small dramas of the adults, he learns to say, ‘bugger off, you bloody sod.’ That was sort of the highlight of the film. Mostly it feels like a farce.

       Many viewers love it. I was disappointed. I’d looked forward to something deeper and more interesting. 

2½ * of 5