However, despite its critical and relative commercial success, the movie didn't receive any Oscar nominations. After its release on Netflix, it was a huge success on the platform, receiving over 3 million views in North American in just 10 days. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Abraham Attah and Idris Elba, the film is a harrowing, confronting look at humanity in the face of the devastation of war. Related reading: British Academy snubs Michelle Williams, All Quiet on the Western Front storms 2023 BAFTA nominationsĪnother war film, the powerful drama Beasts of No Nation follows a brutal civil dispute in Africa as told through the eyes of a child soldier. Talent: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl Where to stream All Quiet on the Western Front: Netflix An aesthetic experience, EW critic Leah Greenblatt writes that "the spectral score by composer Volker Bertelmann is gorgeously unsettling, and the cinematography achieves a kind of painterly, panoramic grandeur." - Ilana Gordon Director Edward Berger's film focuses on Paul's transformation the longer the conflict rages on, the further the young man drifts from youthful, patriotic enlistee, to battle-hardened soldier, traumatized by what he's seen and those he's lost. All Quiet follows Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) a young German recruit over the course of the 18 months he spends serving in Northern France on the frontlines of the war's Western Front. Based on the 1929 literary novel - which was later adapted into an Oscar-winning movie in 1930, a made-for-TV movie in 1979, and finally, a film released theatrically and on Netflix in 2022 - this German language World War I movie remains one of the starkest examples of anti-war sentiment in cinematic history.
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