Saoirse Ronan shines in Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ - lavish wartime family drama reviewed
OSCAR-winning writer/director Steve McQueen recreates Second World War-era London for a compelling family-friendly story centred on the misadventures an 11-year-old evacuee who absconds from a countryside-bound train in an attempt to get home to mum.
Star of the show is first-time actor Elliot Heffernan, making a startlingly assured big screen debut as the plucky young George, whose determination not to be separated from his doting mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) and kindly, piano-playing grandad (a surprisingly good turn by music star Paul Weller) back in London’s East End drives the plot at hand.
Star of the show is first-time actor Elliot Heffernan, making a startlingly assured big screen debut as the plucky young George
Having barely ventured out of his native Stepney prior to being dispatched to greener pastures with a trainload of fellow reluctant evacuees, George has his work cut out for him once he decides to leap from the speeding locomotive taking him far beyond the nightly bombing runs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe.
Meanwhile, Rita and her mates Doris (Erin Kellyman) and Tilda (Hayley Squires, essentially the woman from the iconic ‘We Can Do It!’ posters made flesh) are hard at work in a London munitions factory helping to make the British bombs destined to destroy German cities.
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