the railway man movie review

THE RAILWAY MAN warrants an extreme caution from Movieguide only because of the Japanese atrocities and a suicide. And so starts the film The Railway Man Lomax has a very painful past one that he isnt willing or able to share with Patti.

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A former British Army officer who was tortured as a prisoner.

. Understated to a fault The Railway Man transcends its occasionally stodgy pacing with a touching fact-based story and the quiet chemistry of its stars At. Full Review Original Score. The result shown in THE RAILWAY MAN is healing.

Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. Colin Firths new movie promises awards-frequency gravitas. The Guardian Catherine Shoard.

With Jeremy Irvine Colin Firth Stellan Skarsgård Nicole Kidman. That question occurred to me while watching The Railway Man an unabashedly stodgy high-minded film in the David Lean tradition without the grandeur starring Colin Firth. PHILADELPHIA CBS -- The Railway Man is an earnest intense drama about the torture of a British Army officer at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during World War II and.

Sebastian Lelios fascinating The Wonder opens with a prologue that includes this line one thats crucial to unpacking the film that follows. The Railway Man. Working with co-writers Alice.

The British actor who could dance this brand of fractured nobility on the. But then it quickly becomes apparent that its also a. That said The Railway Man is an important film that needs to be seen if for no other reason than to shine a light on a mostly unknown atrocity of war the scars of which still.

The Railway Man gives us facts but struggles to keep the audiences attention with its slow-going and emotionally distant script. Four Stars Out of Five World War II drama film about a former tortured prisoner of a Japanese POW camp whos given the chance to confront one of his captors. During World War II he was a prisoner of war held.

It starts as what appears to be a romance an exploration of the relationship between two equals one more self-actualized than the other. Toronto Film Review. The Railway Man.

Wrenching profound and beautifully made The Railway Man is one of the stunning dont-miss surprises of the still-young 2014.

The Railway Man Movie Review Film Summary 2014 Roger Ebert