Early in Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest, I had the awful feeling that the heroine Catrin (Gemma Arterton), who works at the Ministry of Information, would wind up coining the phrase “Keep calm and carry on”.
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THEIR FINEST ★★★½
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Thankfully, this does not occur. The story follows the making of a film within the film – an (imaginary) wartime propaganda piece inspired by a heroic rescue undertaken by two sisters during the Dunkirk evacuation.
Gemma Arterton plays a feminist of her time in this nostalgic war flick.
Nostalgia for the Blitz has become one of Britain’s most marketable commodities, especially now collective memory of the reality is starting to vanish.
Source: Their Finest review: Bill Nighy scores the best bits of this Blitz pic
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