'71 (2014)
Directed by Yann Demange
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
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What critics compared '71 to
Had director Yann Demange taken a cue from Vincent Gallo (Buffalo ’66) and called his film Belfast ’71, no confusion would be possible.
The result sits somewhere between The Hurt Locker, ’71, Black Hawn Down and All Quiet on the Western Front, filtered through the opening 25 minutes of Saving Private Ryan.
Similar to the style of director Matteo Garrone and his Italian crime film "Gomorrah," director Demange hustles behind his actors like an eavesdropper or a battle correspondent, giving each new scene and set of characters a chance to register without letting them derail the narrative locomotive.
The likes of Yann Demange’s pulse-pounding thriller ’71 and Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday provide a more intense representation of the time period, but Belfast goes in the other direction.