Peter Weir's Gallipoli tackles a legend in human terms and emerges as a highly entertaining drama on a number of levels, none of them inaccessible to anyone unfamiliar with the actual events.
Gallipoli
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Australia · 1981
Rated PG · 1h 52m
Director Peter Weir
Starring Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Gerda Nicolson
Genre Adventure, Drama, History, War
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Brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank, both agile runners, enlist in the army during World War I. This poignant film follows the two friends as they find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, an eight-month conflict which between the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire.
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Classy and lifeless - a prettily photographed, heavily directed antiwar film.
The New York Times by Janet Maslin
Mr. Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to the subject. And yet his film has an uncommon beauty, warmth and immediacy, and a touch of the mysterious, too.
Well acted and, within its limited terms, well made, Gallipoli represents a failure of nerve as well as design.
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