Synopsis
An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
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Cast
- Callum TurnerBill Rohan
- Caleb Landry JonesPercy Hapgood
- Pat ShorttRedmond
- David ThewlisSargeant Major Bradley
- Richard E. GrantMajor Cross
- Tamsin EgertonOphelia
- Vanessa KirbyDawn Rohan
- Aimee-Ffion EdwardsSophie Adams
- Brían F. O'ByrneRSM Digby
- Sinéad CusackGrace Rohan
Recommendations
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The New York Times
Queen and Country doesn’t quite have the bittersweet intensity of its precursor. The terrible magic of the war is missing, and so is the heightened, wide-eyed perceptiveness of the child protagonist. - 75
The Playlist
Queen & Country is hardly reinventing the wheel, but it's charming, evocative and (mostly) well-performed, and were Boorman to continue with his autobiographical cycle, we'd certainly welcome further installments. - 75
Observer
It might prove to be too insular to appeal to a wider movie audience, but to a passionate Anglophile like me, Queen and Country is a funny and nostalgic portrait of a bleak, rationed postwar England still digging its way out of the rubble. - 70
Variety
Queen and Country lacks the immediacy of “Hope and Glory,” in part because there’s no single animating event here to rival the Blitz... But it remains a pleasure to spend time in the presence of these characters, and a third volume — perhaps focused on Bill’s entrance into the British film industry — would hardly be unwelcome. - 70
The Dissolve
What Queen And Country has going for it that admirers of the original will appreciate—and that total novices can enjoy just as much—is how skillfully Boorman takes major historical events and filters them through small, personal moments. - 60
The Guardian
Queen and Country is an entertaining and sympathetic guide to a lost world: a rite of passage that Britain was to find it could do without. - 60
The Telegraph
Admittedly modest, but the epitome of jolly, this is like the companionable second volume of an autobiography in film form – you'll whip through it in no time, and come out wanting more. - 60
Village Voice
A pleasant old man's movie, in the end, but not one for which Boorman will be remembered.
