Oh! What A Lovely War
Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2009
(Richard Attenborough, UK, 1969, 35mm, 114 min)
Based on Joan Littlewood’s stage play about World War I and featuring an all-star cast (including Laurence Olivier), Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut employs song, satire and absurdist humor to deliver a potent critique of the senselessness of war and how a generation of young British men were killed. Similar to this year’s La France, the sentiments expressed in the soldiers' songs stand in terrible contrast to the slaughter at the front.