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‘Blitz’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Adds Fire To Steve McQueen’s Powerful British WWII Drama Focused On The Human Price Of War – London Film Festival
A review of Blitz, director Steve McQueen's period story of the infamous World War II bombing of London as told through the eyes of a child.
After exploring the ramifications of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam in his 4 1/2-hour 2023 documentary Occupied City, director-writer Steve McQueen returns to the era for his latest narrative feature Blitz, which takes us to the German Blitzkrieg of London as seen through the innocent eyes of a young boy who must survive it. Movies have centered on this dark period in British history before, and notably a Best Picture Oscar-nominated film, Hope And Glory in 1987, detailed it in a lighter fashion (if there could be one) with director John Boorman’s own semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story as a 9-year-old experiencing the Blitz. These include being befriended by a Black air-raid warden, Ife (Benjamin Clementine), and also being led into a gang of looters who find his small size comes in handy in crawling into tight spaces in bombed-out jewelry stores in order to steal merchandise.
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