Resistance

[Beate]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1391116/

I saw this film end of January in a test screening.

The film was half in German (with subtitles of course). Andrea Riseborough (Rose from Brighton Rock) was really good and looked so much older in this role, and Tom Wlaschiha who played the German Captain was great, though his English was almost too perfect for a WWII German soldier. Michael Sheen and Kimberley Nixon were quite wasted though in tiny roles.

The problem with the film was that there wasn't that much going on and that the "Resistance" title falsely suggested action that never came. So I wrote in the questionnaire that it was "interesting but ultimately not satisfying". I also did not understand the ending (which they might have anticipated as one of the questions was whether I found anything confusing), and the characters were not fully explored as we never really learnt of their life before the men left or before they came to the valley. I do like films steeped in history (although this one was obviously a made-up story about a German invasion that never happened) so I wasn't bored and the film didn't overstay its welcome.

I would like to know whether they changed anything! Interesting to see that they are touring the Cambridge Film Festival with it, I think the general release date is still a few months away.

[Ms Thrifty]

It would be interesting to compare the test version with the final one but I don't think I could sit through it again in case it was still as depressing. Would be keen to read others' reports though.

[a_person]

I'm trying to do the front site for this but can't find a trailer to embed it in... Anyone have one?

[elski]

There's a film festival going on in Cambridge and that's why there's a screening, it's still a long way off from it's release so it's probably why you can't find one.

[elski]

I'm trying to do the front site for this but can't find a trailer to embed it in... Anyone have one?

it's being distributed by Metrodome and here's their YT channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Metrodomefilm
but they've not got it on there yet...

[raj101]

ugh. not that film again. almost nearly a waste of two hours of my life.

[elski]

Debut UK Trailer for RESISTANCE with Michael Sheen. The story asks what if the Nazi's had successfully invaded Britain?
http://pearlanddean.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... um=twitter

[a_person]

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Directed by Amit Gupta
Starring: Michael Sheen, Iwan Rheon and Kimberley Nixon

Plot: In 1944 a group of women in an isolated Welsh village wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished.

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[canadian_turtle]

I wasn't interested in seeing this at all and just went to IMDB to read the summary to make up my mind and saw Iwan Rheon is in this! Damnit this means I have to see it now...

[Ms Thrifty]

I'd love to know if it has changed since the version some of us saw earlier this year and if so, how, but unfortunately there's only one way to find out!