An air of sullen defeat hangs over Dunkirk. Not surprising, you might think, since it recounts the ghastly 1940 debacle when the Anglo-French forces, decisively trounced by Hitler’s Wehrmacht, found themselves pinned down on the Normandy beaches. Only luck, good weather and a flotilla of small boats saved the bulk of the British Army. But the movie itself was made by deflated forces, too.
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