Behind the Lines VHS

Tienda This extraordinary World War I film concerns themes of heroism, sacrifice, duty, and self-knowledge as profound as any in Saving Private Ryan. The story, taken from Pat Barker's 1991 novel Regeneration and based on true events, is set in a British Army hospital in Craiglockart, Scotland, in 1917. There, a pioneering psychiatrist named Dr. William Rivers (Jonathan Pryce) works with shell-shocked soldiers in a gentle, humane manner that contrasts sharply with the brutality of his colleagues. (The film's most horrifying scene features a mute patient being forced to speak by means of electric shock.) Among Rivers's patients is a mute, amnesiac officer named Billy Prior (Jonny Lee Miller), as well as the emotionally depleted poet Wilfred Owen (Stuart Bunce) and another poet and war hero, Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby). Unlike the others, Sassoon is not, in fact, suffering from any disorder but is being quietly punished for writing a pamphlet denouncing the war. The army hopes Rivers can find some basis for mental incompetency in Sassoon, but the thoughtful doctor instead attempts to persuade him to add legitimacy to his criticisms of the war by returning to active duty. Pryce brilliantly captures the cumulative effects of Rivers's responsibility--of fixing men and sending them back to their possible deaths--on the good doctor's nerves. Wilby is also fine as Sassoon, but the film belongs just as much to actors Miller and Bunce, whose characters are different kinds of men struggling to find their balance, one through a revived sense of duty and the other through his writing. Scottish filmmaker Gillies Mackinnon (The Playboys) is at the top of his form, telling a unique story about the invisible wounds of war while shedding light on the meeting of two visionary poets and one visionary physician. --Tom Keogh

Detalles del producto Dimensiones del paquete : 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 pulgadas; 6.13 Onzas Director : Gillies MacKinnon Tiempo de ejecución : 1 hora y 36 minutos Fecha de lanzamiento : Abril 24, 2001 Producto en Tienda desde : Septiembre 29, 2006 Actores : Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen Estudio : Live / Artisan Productores : Allan Scott, Eddie Dick, Eric Coulter, Kathy Avrich-Johnson, Mark Shivas ASIN : B000059ZZZ Escritores : Allan Scott, Pat Barker Opiniones de clientes: 4.0 de 5 estrellas 27 calificaciones Dimensiones del paquete : 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 pulgadas; 6.13 Onzas Director : Gillies MacKinnon Tiempo de ejecución : 1 hora y 36 minutos Fecha de lanzamiento : Abril 24, 2001 Producto en Tienda desde : Septiembre 29, 2006 Actores : Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen Estudio : Live / Artisan Productores : Allan Scott, Eddie Dick, Eric Coulter, Kathy Avrich-Johnson, Mark Shivas ASIN : B000059ZZZ Escritores : Allan Scott, Pat Barker