All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

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It was nominated in twelve categories for the 2023 German Film Awards, [7] and won eight, plus the Silver Award for Best Picture. I would have given this film a 5 star rating, if it hadn't been given the title of such a classic work. Use the thumbs up and thumbs down icons to agree or disagree that the title is similar to All Quiet on the Western Front. The film received positive reviews with praise directed towards its tone, the cinematography, the makeup, the performances, Volker Bertelmann's musical scores, Berger's direction, and the relevant anti-war message, [4] however critics were divided over the film's faithfulness to Remarque's source material, [5] with several key sequences from the novel being omitted or altered. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

The viewers, however, have already seen these uniforms belonged to the dead, so when Paul goes away, holding the clothes with a beaming smile, the audience's heart aches for him.Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. Winner of 7 BAFTAs, including in the categories of Best Film, Best Director, Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Adapted Screenplay. If it is to open the eyes of modern audiences about World War I or fire their imagination, it stands as an urgent and potent piece of cinema. I mean you always lose something in translation when watching a dubbed film but this one seemed especially atrocious.

This allowed her to maintain the option by winning five triathlon world championships over the years. An outstanding update to an all-time classic, All Quiet on the Western Front puts you right there on the battlefield -- and reminds you once again that war is truly hell. All Quiet on the Western Front premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022, and was released to streaming on Netflix on October 28. The HDR10 video is not in sync with the 2nd stream (Dolby Vision EL) at the 1:47:39 timestamp, for almost a minute. There is really good visual symbolism here as well as some which is not so good (it cuts from the squalor of the front to a fancy generals dinner table 2 or 3 time in case you didn't get it), the pacing was good throughout, and there is some adaptation needed to show the mindset and inception of a resentful Germany.

MPI doesn't really have the rights, so they'd only be able to get it released through a loophole of them being a US distributor of the German label Capelight's releases in the US. Visuals and sound are outstanding and while they don't really stick to the novel the capture the essence of the book.

Meanwhile, Paul and Kat steal a goose from a farm to share with Albert, Franz, and another veteran, Tjaden Stackfleet, with whom they have grown close behind the front in Champagne.Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. By the end, Germany's delegation to Rethondes appears indignant as the terms and conditions of armistice are quoted by Mathias Erzberger, namely forfeiting submarines, planes, weapons and so on; what is read there was not in the November 11, 1918 capitulation act but was imposed upon Germany next year in the Treaty of Versailles. Only with the help of a combat veteran does he survive the first day, seeing firsthand the reality of what war really is.