Make sure to leave a link to your blog entry once you've seen the movie and written about the music, I'd love to read it.
After I saw the film I tried to find out as much as possible about the music. I actually ordered a CD with Elgar's Enigma Variations. The one that Zimmer used for the score, "Nimrod", has actually been used in other movies before. It really is a wonderful piece of music, just listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXFH47Jbqk

And here is the version from the Dunkirk score:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5UtTotrCOs


 

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SolarSystem wrote:

I totally agree.
Christopher Nolan never ceases to amaze me. I had quite high expectations and they were more than fulfilled. The atmosphere in this movie really kept me on the edge of my seat. It's a masterpiece both visually and emotionally. I had tears in my eyes more than once, probably also thanks to Hans Zimmer's score. Especially the piece which is based on Edward Elgar's "Nimrod" from his Enigma Variations is so haunting... just amazing.
I'll probably watch it again, this film really needs a big screen.
 

 
Thank you!
And thanks a lot for the YT links! 🎼🎶

You're completely right - the soundtrack is equally a masterpiece and absolutely brilliant. But also terrific. Like a needle slowly  sliding under the skin.....almost painful, almost exciting....

I could not sleep the night after watching, so I guess, this one time is enough for me yet.

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You make me really curious. Usually I'm not keen on this kind of movies (if there isn't an actor in it  I'm longing to see) but your opinions will lure me into the cinema.

gently69 wrote:

You make me really curious. Usually I'm not keen on this kind of movies (if there isn't an actor in it  I'm longing to see) but your opinions will lure me into the cinema.

What "kind of movies" do you mean exactly? Movies about war? Then I can assure you that this is not your typical kind of war movie. There is not much dialogue. And it's not a movie about heroism (or maybe it is, but a very different kind of heroism). No "lockere Sprüche" (casual jokes). No heroic soundtrack. Do go and see it. 
 

Well done. 

I am very impressed by the film. No cheap heroism, interesting narrative structure, the Elgar piece is beautiful. Kenneth Branagh, one of my old favourites. Now I am going to read up about the Dunkirk story about which I do not know very much. 

I had a little River Phoenix film night on Sunday.
First "Stand by me" and then "My own private Idaho" I haven't watched them for at least 10 years or so.
Both so wonderful and after it I thought for a very long time how would it be if River Phoenix didn't die in 1993.
He was so pure and raw in his films.

Does anyone of you remember when he died, I mean in the sense of "where were you when XY died"

I was 13 and I'm not sure how much I was aware of him at that time.

Ivy wrote:

I had a little River Phoenix film night on Sunday.
First "Stand by me" and then "My own private Idaho" I haven't watched them for at least 10 years or so.
Both so wonderful and after it I thought for a very long time how would it be if River Phoenix didn't die in 1993.
He was so pure and raw in his films.

Does anyone of you remember when he died, I mean in the sense of "where were you when XY died"

I was 13 and I'm not sure how much I was aware of him at that time.

I do not remember where I was but it was a shock to hear of his death. I liked "My Own Private Idaho" very much, especially since I was working on Shakespeare adaptations at the time. I still think this was a fascinating view on Henry IV. 
 

The best film I've seen in the last months is a documentary: Free to run by Pierre Morath ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Free-Run-DVD-Pierre-Morath/dp/B01GQ26LX0/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1506795176&sr=1-1&keywords=Free+to+run ). I am not a runner, but I picked it up in the library a bit out of desperation (nothing around that interested me more), and a lot because of the French subtitle: Liberté, égalité, course à pied. In English they've changed that to: When Sporting History Meets Social Revolution.

Because once upon a time in the dark ages - before the 1970s for local events, 1984 for the olympics - women were not allowed to run marathons. Doctors thought our uterus would fall out - women had dishwashing competitions. (Seriously!)

So the subject matter is absolutely fascinating (though it's not all about women running - men who dared to just go out and run, without paying their dues to some athletics club were not well-like either). Moreover, the film is also incredibly well-made; a brilliantly edited mixture of archive material (including pictures of the 1928 olympics where women let themselves fall down after the finish line of the 800 m race which led to them being banned from such "long" races for decades) and interviews with people who were involved in the history of "free running". For once I didn't have a moment of boredom (unlike in most so-called thrillers...)
 

I highly recommend Free to Run for its entertainment value - IMHO there's no need to be interested in running beforehand. (Though I was nearly tempted to take up running afterwards - the interviewed pioneers of running just seemed so incredibly fit and happy.) I nearly borrowed it again last week, but the libarian recommended "Parched" to me ("Saison des femmes" in French), a movie about women in a village in Northern India. Well-made movie, not boring at all, great visuals, but I found it thoroughly depressing (or maybe more infuriating?) - even though it was not the (female) director's intention to make a depressing movie (the bonus material contains an interview with her). The very end is somewhat happy, at least for the moment.